Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
Thanks so much, that added enough clarity that I now know what was wrong.
I'll read the manual.
Len
----- Original Message -----
From: "CW Harris" <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:12:34PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > Chris.
> > Thanks, I'll try your suggestion and report back on results. FYI, the
url's
> > were copied verbatum from the Debian mirror list. If they are formatted
> > incorrectly, I'm not aware, and why would the Debian site misformat
there
> > own links?.
>
> Maybe I wasn't clear. The links are okay...but you need information
> after them in the sources.list file. Notice all the other lines.
> Following the URI is information about the distribution you want.
> E.g.
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib
>
> This gives the URI and specifies the stable distribution, main and
> contrib sections.
>
> >From the sources.list man page:
> The format for a sources.list entry using the deb and deb-src
types
> are:
>
> deb uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...]
>
> Note that the distribution is *required* information. (man sources.list)
>
>
> [...]
> > > 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.
>
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> Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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