Re: sources.list conversion
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 23:38, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Mike Mueller:
> > I installed Knoppix 3.3 to disk on my laptop. When I try "apt-cache
> > search blah" I get lots of messages like "W: Couldn't stat source package
> > list <ftp or http URL here>".
> >
> > I examined /etc/apt/sources.list and found lots of .de sites. I am
> > located in .us. Is this the source of the problem? Are there lots of
> > mirrors still
>
> Try apt-setup. It'll ask you where you are and try to figure out best
> mirrors for you. I believe it will know you're using sid by looking
> at your /etc/debian-version
/etc/debian_version contains "testing/unstable"
I moved the existing sources.list to soures.list.old.
apt-setup created a new sources.list with entries for stable.
This is my first exposure to unstable so maybe I should go do some research
on how to manage the unstable release. Any suggestions?
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Mike Mueller
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