apt and packages from outside the distro
Hi, all. I think I just need to RTFM but I don't know where.
As established at considerable length in another thread, I need to
install XFree86 4.2 on a woody machine. I have lots of URL's for
mirrors of the version currently being tested, for example:
deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/xsf sid/i386 /
But when that line is added to my sources.list, I get this error from
'apt-get update':
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www.phy.olemiss.edu
sid/i386// Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/www.phy.olemiss.edu_xsf_dists_sid_i386___binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Needless to say, the version of XFree that I get is still the one
included in the main woody archive.
So, what am I doing wrong or what document should I have read before I
tried this? So far I've looked around at any apt documentation I can
find with a casual search, but I'm not finding anything about how to
manage packages from outside one's current distribution.
Thanks,
-mrj
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