Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:31:04AM -0500, Haines Brown said
> 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
apt-get update has the *exact* same error? update should try to go out
on the network and get the missing package lists from your debian
mirror.
--
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC?
Words of the day: NWO credit card Syria Chobetsu Yukon Leuken-Baden
Reply to: