Re: Source list help

[John Peter <john.peter@netcabo.pt>]

Haines Brown wrote:

> > Shaul Karl wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:03:38PM -0700, nemesisdivina@gennux.ca wrote:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to
> > > > get packages from unstable.
> > > >        
> > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> > >      
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> > > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> > >      
            ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> I've been following the thread with interest. While not the nearest
> repository, I appended the above lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list and
> as root ran: # aptitutde update. I get the errors:
>
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org
> unstable/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> ...
>  
Haynes, you have the answer right in front of you - you made a mistake 
in the line you wrotte
in your sources.list .
I think it's better to select the lines indicated above, copy them and 
paste them in you souces.list
file .That way you won't make a mistake .