Re: apt sources line

[Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com>]

Brian Servis wrote:
> 
> Then you need a sources.list line of
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/
> 
> And yes it will sort out which are i386, sparc, etc.  In fact, if you
> look at the list in dselect it won't even show the architecture field.
> 
> --
> Brian

Thanks. I added that to my sources.list file. I ran apt-get
update;apt-get upgrade and was informed about 10 upgraded packages. But
when apt-get tried to download them I got some error messages telling me
that the files weren't plain files (or something to that effect).

What does that mean?

TIA
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