Re: Modifying /etc/apt/sources.list

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 06:15:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:57:51PM +0100, Oliver Hingst wrote:
>> > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/ potato main contrib non-free
>> > 
>> > adding "non-US" to this, gives an error about not being able to download
>> > the Packages.gz file.  What line must I add to get the package list from
>> > the UK Debian server for non-US packages ?
>> 
>> try:
>> 
>> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free
>
>Probably need to get rid of the trailing '/' after debian.

I think you'll also need non-US/main, etc., judging from the directory
organization on ftp.uk.debian.org.

My /etc/apt/sources.list reads, in part (apologies for the lack of
line-wrapping):

deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/non-US woody non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free

This works fine, as do the corresponding deb-src lines.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]