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Re: apt's sources.list (Correction)



On Thu, 27 May 1999, Kent West wrote:

> !Newbie Alert!
> 
> According to the sources.list man page, "distribution can specify an exact
> path, in which case the components must be omitted and distribution must
> end with a slash".
> 
> I must not understand what this means. I've used Netscape to browse to the
> "Packages.gz" file at
> "ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/deb/binary-i386/";,
> (to verify the path) and have specified this in my sources.list file;
> everything in the file is commented out except for this one line:
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/deb/binary-i386

deb
ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/deb/binary-i386/

(with the slash on the end)

> 
> but when I try to do an "apt-get update" I get the error that I have a
> "Malformed line 8 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist)".
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
> 
>  -- 
> Kent West
> kent.west@infotech.acu.edu
> KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails.
> Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
> "Life is an ongoing classroom." - Capt. James T. Kirk, "Dreadnought"
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Kent West
kent.west@infotech.acu.edu
KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails.
Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
"Life is an ongoing classroom." - Capt. James T. Kirk, "Dreadnought"


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