Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:51:21AM -0600, Patrick Albuquerque wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:55:39PM -0600, Steve Block wrote:
> > Patrick Albuquerque wrote:
> > >On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > >
> > >You have encrypted your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Also, what version
> > >of Debian are you installing?
> > >
> > >Patrick,
> >
> > The file is plain text, just typed as binary in the attachment for some
> > reason.
> > --
>
> Strange, I see no attachments in mutt, just see line after line like this...
>
> begin 666 sources.list
> M"B-D96(@8V1R;VTZ6T1E8FEA;B!'3E4O3&EN=7@@,RXP('(R(%]7;V]D>5\@
> M+2!/9F9I8VEA;"!I,S@V($)I;F%R>2TW("@R,# S,3(P,2E=+R!U;G-T86)L
>
> Is my system misconfigured? I can't see anything obvious in .muttrc
>
It's uuencoded and just in-line rather than mime-attached. In the
future he should just include the relevent portion of the file in the
email, rather than attaching it, and especially not including it in this
strange way. The decoded sources.list file is:
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
[skipping similar commented lines...]
# deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6 (20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4 (20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-5 (20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.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-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
Now my comments:
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/
^^ these are lines 26-28 they are not properly formatted.
These 3 lines all give you the same info, they are just located in
different countries. Pick one mirror close to you and stick with it.
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
This line will get the US mirror of the stable distribution (I guess
that is what you were trying to do above?)
So delete lines 26-28 and I think your sources.list is fine.
You might want to browse http://www.debian.org/doc/ Debian
documentation. There are also many other sites, newbiedoc.sourceforge.net
is one other I have seen mentioned. Google this list for newbie docs
and you'll find dozens of suggestions, I'm sure.
As an aside, if you are really new to Debian you might want to jump in
with the Sarge distribution (currently testing, soon to be the new
stable). The current stable (Woody) is quite old. It is still going
through changes though, that might be intimidating to a newbie.
Browse here if you want some history of Debian:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-intro.en.html
HTH
--
Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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