Re: apt's sources.list
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > 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.
>
That did it! Thanks!
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