Re: apt problems
I don't believe www.debian.org is a site containing Debian packages. The
apt package includes a sources.list which contains both us and non-us
sites which will work.
I have attached a copy.
There are others, such as llug.sep.bnl.gov (hopefully README.mirrors will
list them some day).
Bob
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Robert Kerr wrote:
> Hi all,
> when I run dselect using apt as the method, I go to update and I get these
> errors.
> Get http://www.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages
> Error http://www.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages
> 404 Not Found
> Get http://www.debian.org frozen/main Packages
> Error http://www.debian.org frozen/main Packages
> 404 Not Found
> Get http://www.debian.org frozen/non-free Packages
> Error http://www.debian.org frozen/non-free Packages
> 404 Not Found
> ERROR
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Need package libwww-perl
> ERROR
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Need package libwww-perl
> ERROR
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Need package libwww-perl
> ERROR
> ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/unstable/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Need package libwww-perl
> ERROR
> http://www.debian.org/archive/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> 404 Not Found
> ERROR
> http://www.debian.org/archive/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> 404 Not Found
> ERROR
> http://www.debian.org/archive/dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> 404 Not Found
>
>
> I think the problem may lie in my sources.list. does anyone have an
> example one that I could look at? I would like to access the frozen us
> sections, and the non-us section.
> Thanks
>
>
> -bob
>
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# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
# See sources.list(5) for more information
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/
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