Re: Help with dselect

[Nicos Gollan <gtdev@spearhead.de>]

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 19:13, Dr. Sachin Kale wrote:
> I did apt-cdrom add & added the cds. Now also when I try dseletctr
> update or apt update, it gives error -
>
> Err file: potato/main Packages
>   File not found
> Ign file: potato/main Release
> Err file: potato/main Packages
>   File not found
> Ign file: potato/main Release
> Failed to fetch file:/cdrom/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages
>   File not found
> Failed to fetch
> file:/cdrom/dists/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages
>   File not found
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> W: Couldn't stat source package list 'file: potato/main Packages'
> (/var/state/apt/lists/_cdrom_dists_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Pack
>a ges) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or
> old ones used instead.
>
> And on apt-get -f install I get the following  -
>
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   freetype2 librep5 librpm1 rep task-x-window-system-core
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   alien freeamp g++ gnome-bin gnome-control-center gnome-core
> gnome-help
>   gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-terminal
> icewm-gnome
>   libc6-dev libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27
> libgtk1.2
>   libgtkmm libgtkxmhtml1 libncurses5-dev libstdc++2.10-dev
> sawmill-gnome
>   task-gnome-apps task-gnome-desktop vim-tcl xmms
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   freetype2 librep5 librpm1 rep task-x-window-system-core
> 0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 27 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> 16 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/560kB of archives. After unpacking 32.8MB will be
> freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> Can somebody pls explain to me what is happening ? I really want to
> fix the broken gnome package
>
> Sachin

Perhaps it would be best if you posted yout /etc/apt/sources.list here. 
It looks like there was some problem with it.

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