Re: apt-get sources.list error
You need a separate line in sources.list for non-US, usually of the
format:
<mirror of choice>/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
Cheers,
Corey Popelier
http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
Work Email: copo@commerce.wa.gov.au
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Russ Pitman wrote:
> In /etc/apt/sources.list I have,
>
> deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free non-US
>
> Running apt-get update gives the following,
>
> --start here
>
> Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Packages
> Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Release
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Packages
> Err ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Packages
> Unable to fetch file, server said
> '/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or
> directory '
> Get:2 ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Release
> Ign ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Release
> Failed to fetch
> ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages
> Unable to fetch file, server said
> '/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or
> directory '
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US
> Packages'
> (/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.ca.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_non-US_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
>
> --end here---
>
> Tried local mirror and got similiar results. Could someone advise a
> correct URL line to access the non-US directories.
>
> Thanks,
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