On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 02:36:00AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > 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 Correction noted -- for potato: deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian potato main ^^^^^^ > What's your error message? > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org > GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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