On 14/11/99 b- wrote:
this was very helpful. some notes for for non-US packages sources: - for non-US packages, ftp.pandora... doesn't seem to exist (doesn't resolve with dns).
oops! thats supposed to be ftp://pandora.debian.org not ftp://ftp.pandora.debian.org
i used non-us.debian.org or one of its mirrors, and it seems to work.
I have had problems with apt not finding stuff on non-us.debian.org if its working for you now thats great.
- stable direcotry does not have subdirectories main/contrib/non-free. apt-get source <package> is very cool. 8-)
apt-get is just cool period :-) Best Regards, Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/