Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources
I installed debian from cdrom, but now want to use apt-get (actually,
aptitude) to get on-line packages. To do this I ran netselect-apt
woody in the /etc/apt directory, and as a result built a
/etc/apt/sources list that had a US and a non-US site uncommented.
OK, so next I want to get the sudo package and run:
# apt-get install sudo
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.br.debian.org
woody/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.br.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
... [same for three directories in each of the two source sites
listed in sources list]
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Couldn't find package sudo
I don't understand this. Apparently apt-get reads my sources.list, but
can't use it. Running apt-get update has the same result. I added
the following http subsection to /etc/apt.conf Acquire section to
enable internet sources:
Acquire
{
Retries "0";
// I added this next subsection:
http
{
Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128";
Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT"; // Specific per-host setting
Timeout "120";
Pipeline-Depth "5";
// Cache Control. Note these do not work with Squid 2.0.2
No-Cache "false";
Max-Age "86400"; // 1 Day age on index files
No-Store "false"; // Prevent the cache from storing archives
};
};
// Things that effect the APT dselect method
DSelect
{
Clean "auto"; // always|auto|prompt|never
};
Where did I go wrong?
Haines Brown
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