Re: apt question

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Mark Healey wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:53:35 -0600, Kent West wrote:
>
> As you recommended I added these lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
>
>  
>
> > > # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
> > >      
> which I did
>  
>
> > > #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> > > #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
> > >      
>
>  
>
> > > # Stable
> > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
> > >      
>
> Just to check things out I did "apt-cache search nethack" to see if
> everything is working.  It's not.
>
> I get:
> W: Couldn't stat source package list [an entry from above] Packages
> ([a path which I assume is what the listing is a symbolic link to]) -
> stat (2 No such file or directory).
>
>  
Did you "apt-get update" first? If not, you need to.

If that doesn't solve the problem, comment out all but one line and run 
"apt-get update" again. Then add lines back in and repeat until you find 
the line with the problem. Let us know which line it is and we'll go 
from there.

> I added the lines above the CDrom entries.
>
> What's up?
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