Re: aptitude: modifying sources.list

[Jonathan Kaye <jonathan.kaye@univie.ac.at>]

Ben Bettin wrote:
> When you get that error message, scroll down to the bottom.  Near the
> bottom it will have a message recommending that you "Update" to remedy
> the problem.  Should be just above the 'ok' button.  ;)
>
> Ben

> > Hi Debianers,
> > I'm running sarge 2.4.27-1-386 and normally use aptitude (ver.0.2.15.8)
> > for handling my packages. I noticed that if I add a new source to
> > sources.list and then run "aptitude update", I get the hated
> > "W: Couldn't stat source package list.." error message.
> > If I first run apt-get (apt 0.5.27) then everything works perfectly. If
> > I then run aptitude update (probably vacuously since I guess apt-get
> > update has already done what needs to be done), no more error messages.
> > I scoured the man pages, help files, and googled around quite a bit and
> > only found one thread that dealt with this question. The thread seemed
> > to presuppose that everyone knows you do apt-get update and NOT aptitude
> > update after modifying you sources.list file.
> >
> > First, is this true? or have I misconfigured something?
> > Second, if true, is it documented somewhere?
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> > Jonathan

Hi Ben,
Thanks for the reply but I'm afraid you didn't understand my question. 
The problems arise when I AM updating - in aptitude. Since I'm running 
aptitude on a command line there are no buttons. I see the message
"W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files"
As I said, I know how to fix the problem: I run apt-get update. My 
questions were as I stated them at the end of the original posting.
Cheers,
Jonathan