Re: apt & source.list
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:58:22AM -0000, Sean Bybee wrote:
> Well after about a year or so of fooling around with Mandrake, I decided to
> get my feet wet with Debian. Anyway, I downloaded the binary-1 and binary-2
> iso?s and I have a few questions about apt and source.list. Two of the
> lines on the list are:
>
> Deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - - Official i386 Binary-1
> (20001207)] /unstable contrib main non-US/contrib.
>
> Deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - - Official i386
> Binary-2(20001207)] /unstable contrib main non-US/contrib
>
> What I?m wondering about is the unstable part. Does it mean that my
> packages are from woody? I changed (edited) the unstable to stable and got
> an error saying something like the source couldn?t be located.
i'm guessing here --
the binary-* you downloaded were frmo unstable or testing,
right? that'd mean that the sources.list for those cd images
would point to unstable on the cd, since that's what's there.
right? good guess?
once you're up, you can
apt-setup
to have your sources.list point to a web address via http or ftp
and also change your stable/testing/unstable reference as well.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newbieDoc/files/apt-get-intro.html
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