You were right. Thanks! It works now.

On Friday, March 4, 2016 at 9:55:58 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote:
>
> You should probably check to make sure you're actually connected to the 
> internet . . . chances are really good based on your output that you're 
> not..
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Audrey <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> 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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