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Re: sources.list entry for KDE - how to construct?



Believe me, I know how you feel. This is what I have, which seems to be
working for me:

deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty


> Hi
>
> I'm not stupid, but I feel that way sometimes; I seem to be unable
> to get my sources.list right for KDE.   Examining the lynx -dump command
(see
> below), we find that the Packages.gz file resides in the same place as all
> the .deb files.  According to my understanding, apt-get looks for the
> Packages.gz file in the second field (URI) of the sources.list, and the
.deb
> files themselves in the third field (distribution).  So I reckon my entry
> should look like this:
>
> deb
ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386 /
>
>
> which totally does not work, or like this
>
> deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato
i386/
>
> which seems happy, but then doesn't show the packages as available for
> dselect.  Has anyone worked this out?
>
>
> - Brian
>
>
>
> lynx -dump
> <ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386/
>
> Current directory is /pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386
>
> [1]Up to higher level directory
>  [2][LINK]-[3][IMAGE] Packages.gz  3 Kb  Wed Sep 15 14:36:00 1999
>  [4][LINK]-[5][IMAGE] kdeadmin_1.1.2-199...  613 Kb  Mon Sep 13 18:37:00
199
>
>
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