On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:19 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> I am new to BeagleBone. Right now I am stuck up in the intial phase of using
> SPI0 (once I am able to use SPI0, I would go for SPI1). I tried to run the
> command for installing device tree compiler, but prompted "bash: dtc not
> found"
>
> I have on my BBB :
>
> Linux arm 3.8.13xenomai-bone28.1 #1 SMP Thu Nov 21 09:53:58 CET 2013 armv7l
> armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

lots of bugs have been fixed since bone28...

> And when I tried to install the dtc by sudo apt-get install dtc, it does not
> work and gave error like:
>
>
> Err http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/universe Translation-en
>   Something wicked happened resolving 'security.ubuntu.com:http' (-11 -
> System error)

why do you have "security.ubuntu.com" enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list
? there is no armhf binaries on that server...

> the same error appear when I used apt-get install for other packages.
>
> I googled the error and accordingly two solutions:
>
> 1)
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/150210/how-do-i-set-systemwide-proxy-servers-in-xubuntu-lubuntu-or-ubuntu-studio
>
> I did what is asked for but still the same results. I want to tell that for
> checking if my BBB has proxy I used the following command
>
> env | grep -i proxy
>
> Nothing got printed with this command (so there is no proxy) to from the
> link above I only used the lines
> no_proxy="localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddress,.localdomain.com"
> NO_PROXY="localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddress,.localdomain.com"
>
> But I have a doubt since BBB device connect to PC via USB and when I use a
> site to find my proxy it gives some IP, but when I used the command "env |
> grep -i proxy". It  does not print anything. I need your suggestion.
>
> 2) I added these two lines in the file /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/tail
>
> nameserver 8.8.8.8
> nameserver 8.8.4.4
>
> and then sudo /etc/init.d/resolvconf restart
>
> Still apt-get install does not work and gives the same error as
>
>   Err http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/universe Translation-en
>   Something wicked happened resolving 'security.ubuntu.com:http' (-11 -
> System error)
>
>
> I would be highly obliged if you would give some suggestions.

Remove security and try again.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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