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On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Audrey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi I tried that but it still didn't work. apt-get update had problems:
>
> root@beaglebone:~# apt-get update
> Err http://repos.rcn-ee.net wheezy Release.gpg
>   Could not resolve 'repos.rcn-ee.net'
> Err http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg
>   Could not resolve 'security.debian.org'
> Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg
>   Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
> Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy-updates Release.gpg
>   Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
> Reading package lists... Done
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg  Could not
> resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy-updates/Release.gpg  Could
> not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release.gpg  Could not
> resolve 'security.debian.org'
>
> W: Failed to fetch http://repos.rcn-ee.net/debian/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg
>  Could not resolve 'repos.rcn-ee.net'
>
> W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
> ones used instead.
>
>
> On Friday, March 4, 2016 at 5:33:56 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Audrey <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > So I want to do floating point arithmetic in BASH, but I have trouble
>> > installing the bc package (https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/).
>> >
>> > I type in:
>> > apt-get install bc
>> >
>> > and it tells me:
>> > Reading package lists... Done
>> > Building dependency tree
>> > Reading state information... Done
>> > E: Unable to locate package bc
>> >
>> > So. Any idea on how to either do floating point arithmetic in BASH some
>> > other way, or how to install bc on beaglebone black?
>>
>> apt-get update
>> apt-get install bc
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Robert Nelson
>> https://rcn-ee.com/
>>
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