On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:30:29AM -0500, Haines Brown said > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:43:27PM -0500, Haines Brown said > > > I have the following lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list > > >=20 > > > deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > > deb http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian $(ARCH)/ > > >=20 > > > When I run Aptitude update, they won't stat.=20 > > > > Run "apt-get update". You'll need to do this after each time you edit > > your sources.list. > > My last line above, which is the equivalent of "apt-get update" is > what resulted in the won't stat error in the first place. That is, I > could not update. In future, it would be a *massive* help to us if you could include the full error that you see. Ideally without wrapping, without indentation, etc. > However, when I try it now it works. All I did was to uncomment the > earlier URLs. No idea what changed (I don't _think_ I foolishly had a > space at start of the lines). Were you online at the time? "apt-get update" will hit each source in the file, so if you're offline or your DNS is broken or...whatever, then apt-get will fail. > In any case, I now did a "# aptitude update && aptitude upgrade", and > all went smoothly. Thanks for your patience. You're welcome. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: LLNL militia Iraq Ft. Meade fraud counter intelligence ANDVT
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