Installing gedit

Your /etc/apt/sources.list should have a line similar to
deb ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy main
in it.

If it did, having run apt-get update you should have found the gedit package with apt-get, because it is in main

synaptic is the GUI access to apt, won't help you if your repo paths are not right though

ArcEye

This is what is in my sources.list

# deb http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
# deb-src http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
# deb-src http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

I am open to any suggestions.

# deb http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
# deb-src http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
# deb-src http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

Your stanza to access the wheezy main repo is commented out ( that is what a # does)

Remove the comments, run
sudo apt-get update again
and then pull gedit with
sudo apt-get install gedit-common gedit gedit-plugins

It should work then

I ran apt-get update

Generated what I believe to be warnings"W"

W: Duplicate sources.list entry buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ wheezy/master-rt i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/buildbot.linuxcnc.org_dists_wheezy_master-rt_binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Is this something I should be worried about or I can fix?

I do appreciate the help and time.

I have not yet tried to pull gedit.

It is just telling you the entry appears twice, I have no idea what you did to add master-rt in the first place.

Try pulling gedit and see what happens.

You should be able to just use
sudo apt-get install gedit gedit-plugins

it will get gedit-common and any other dependencies

I updated the master to get the foam 4 axis sim "X Y U V" for a wirecutter. I may have put some stuff in the wrong place.

I think what I am going to do is reinstall the live cd version see if I can install gedit then install the master of emc2

what you think???