Re: Okay, I give up. What do I put in apt-get's sources.list?

[Corey Popelier <pancreas@dingoblue.net.au>]

Erm there *may* be an issue there with the ~ character.
I don't know if its still the case, but you don't use ~, you use %7E to
generate the ~.

So the apt line would be:

deb http://www.sandalwood.net/%7Eterubou linux/deb/


Cheers,
 Corey J. Popelier
 http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas


On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Colin Watson wrote:

> "Joe Emenaker" <joe@emenaker.com> wrote:
> >I want apt to be able to get to the goodies at:
> >  http://www.sandalwood.net/~terubou/linux/deb/
> >
> >What do I put in sources.list?
> 
>   deb http://www.sandalwood.net/~terubou linux/deb/
> 
> ... seems to work. (The trailing slash is required if you want to
> specify an exact path rather than let apt construct the usual Debian
> archive organization. You also need to pick a point at which to divide
> the complete URL into URI and distribution - I've more or less
> arbitrarily chosen the point between ~terubou and linux to do this.)
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
> 
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