On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 08:31, Haines Brown wrote:
> 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?
You have to update the local cache with what is available on the remote
site...
apt-get update
apt-get install sudo
Should really do:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
First and foremost...!
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