Re: sources.list help v.2
Add non-free section to you sources.list, i.e. change
deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main
to
deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main non-free
and install package 'unrar' which is the latest (but non-free) version
of unrar, supporting RAR archives ver 3.x
Max
On Nov 14, 2007 10:28 AM, Dave Stevens <geek@uniserve.com> wrote:
> I have a friend with a new debian amd-64 install. He has unrar-free but it
> won't open RAR 3.0 files. It looks like it would be worthwhile to try unrar
> but I am not able to get appropriate access for synaptic.
>
> I went to:
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/unrar/amd64/download
>
> and tried adding a line to /etc/apt/sources.list as suggested at that page but
> get error warnings when starting synaptic. The error text is:
>
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://http.us.debian.org sarge/non-free Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://http.us.debian.org sarge/contrib Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
>
> the current sources.list file is:
>
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official
> amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070819 -12:16]/ etch contrib main
>
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official
> amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070819 -12:16]/ etch contrib main
>
> deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main
> deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
> contrib
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
> contrib
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
> non-free contrib
>
> The net effect is that searching
> for unrar gives only the already installed unrar-free. I have the .deb
> package for unrar but installing it fails due to a dependency error.
>
> Can someone point me to a tutorial or explain how to get better information
> about the problem? This is what I got from uname:
>
> roger@debianroger:~$ uname -a
> Linux debianroger 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 2 20:37:02 UTC 2007 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Dave
>
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>
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>
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