Re: apt's sources.list
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 02:37:09PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote:
> I had this same problem and just concluded they had something screwed up
> in their Packages.list file. ACtually, I got the list alright, but
> dselect wouldn't d/l the files saying they weren't normal files or
> something like that. Just d/l the debs manually and install them.
>
> > !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 /
Notice the space, sources.list requires atleast 3 fields.
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