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Re: are apt/sources.list http: and ftp: same?



On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:32:41AM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> I found that with http: lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list I pointed to 
> woody, but apt-get would not install known things there. I changed it to 
> ftp: and it worked fine.
> 
> Should these be the same? If different, is this documented?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newbieDoc/files/apt-get-intro.html

or,

try "apt-setup" (if you don't have it, try apt-get install base-config)

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