Re: apt sources

[alex <radsky@ncia.net>]

Thanks all.  I finally got things straightened out...there were
a few typos in the original document and I made a few trial and error
runs on them and now have them working.

alex wrote:
> I'm having a problem understanding the architecture of apt sources
> and have difficulty in getting packages with apt and dselect.
>
> According to the APT HOWTO, 2.1, The /etc/apt/sources.list file
> it says: (quote)
> "The entries in this file normally follows this format:"
>
> "deb-http://site.http.org/debian distribution section1 section2 section3"
>
> "deb-src http://site.http.org/debian distribution section1 section2 
> section3"
>
> Question---isn't 'site.http' supposed to be 'http.site' ?
>
> ---------
> The following sources are copied directly from my 
> /etc/apt/sources.list.  It seems to me that there are errors
> such as  /  either missing or in the wrong place.
>
> Could someone comment on whether or not the sources are correctly
> structured as is or what the error is?
> -----
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main/
>                                               ^-- main/ or main?
>
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib 
> non-free                                         ^-- / or space?
>
>
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main 
> contrib non-free                                     ^-- / or space?
>
>
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib 
> non-free                                         ^-- / or space ?
>
>
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main 
> contrib non-free                                     ^-- / or space?
>
> # deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
>                                  ^------^-------^------ ?????
>
> alex