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Re: trouble with apt-get update



on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:00:42AM -0700, hilsy (hilsy@dsl-only.net) wrote:
> > I'm getting the following error message (repeated many times) when 
> > trying to run apt-get update:
> > 
> > Err http://us.debian.org sid/main/contrib Packages
> >    Something wicked happed resolving 'us.debian.org/http'
> > 
> > Here's the first two lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list:
> > 
> > deb http://us.debian.org/debian sid/main contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib 
> > non-free
> > 
> > Do I have something wrong in the source.list???
> 
> The message usually means you can't resolve the host.  I think you want
> http.us.debian.org, though I'm not sworn to that.

...I'll note too that 'us.debian.org' doesn't resolve from where I sit.

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