Hi again, * Joseph Jones <joe@bumpycarrot.cjb.net> [031023 03:57]: > Nick Hastings wrote: > >* Joseph Jones <joe@bumpycarrot.cjb.net> [031022 10:31]: > > > > > >>I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository: > >>http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ > >> > >>I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned > >>in a mailing list archive. Could anyone tell me how I would go about > >>installing from this repository (so I can play UT2003 and Quake3 > >>fullscreen (long story, stupid graphics card)). > >> > >> > > > >Looks like you need to add > >deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ i386/ > > > >to you /etc/apt/sources.list > >then do: > ># apt-get update <snip> > Okay, so, I tried that and dselect's showing the information for the > packages in the repository (thankyou! :) ). Unfortunately, the guy who > put it together > hasn't tested the repository and has written the Packages.gz badly. The > addresses for all the files start with ./ , which apt-get can't > interpret in an address (from the looks of the errors) and rightly so. > I've confirmed this by looking at the file in Mozilla. > > Is there any way of fixing this? <snip> This is just a stab in the dark, but what about: deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./ Cheers, Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux twofish 2.6.0-test8-looxt93c i686 GNU/Linux
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