Re: apt-get problems

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Pollywog wrote:

>I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list but they no longer seem to work and I don't know why.
>I can access these via the web just not with apt.
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>deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
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You're missing the terminal slash: the correct line (the one I use) is:

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

>deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian unstable contrib main non-free

Need I say more?

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>Any ideas?
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>thanks
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>--
>Andrew
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