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Re: apt



On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:54:15AM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> I am trying to point my apt sources.list file to a UK debian ftp site
> for potato so I can perform an upgrade. The address for the site is:
> ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian and I think it should be pointing to
> /dists/potato but when I try and change this in apt and perform a
> apt-get update it bombs out. Whats the correct format for this?? 

If it conforms to the standard, your /etc/apt/sources.list line *should*
look like:

    deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main 

What's your error message?

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