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Re: aptitude: modifying sources.list



When you get that error message, scroll down to the bottom.  Near the
bottom it will have a message recommending that you "Update" to remedy
the problem.  Should be just above the 'ok' button.  ;)

Ben


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:04:30 +0100, Jonathan Kaye
<jonathan.kaye@univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Hi Debianers,
> I'm running sarge 2.4.27-1-386 and normally use aptitude (ver.0.2.15.8)
> for handling my packages. I noticed that if I add a new source to
> sources.list and then run "aptitude update", I get the hated
> "W: Couldn't stat source package list.." error message.
> If I first run apt-get (apt 0.5.27) then everything works perfectly. If
> I then run aptitude update (probably vacuously since I guess apt-get
> update has already done what needs to be done), no more error messages.
> I scoured the man pages, help files, and googled around quite a bit and
> only found one thread that dealt with this question. The thread seemed
> to presuppose that everyone knows you do apt-get update and NOT aptitude
> update after modifying you sources.list file.
> 
> First, is this true? or have I misconfigured something?
> Second, if true, is it documented somewhere?
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> Jonathan
> 
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