Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
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?.
----- Original Message -----
From: "CW Harris" <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:28 PM
Subject: 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
>
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> Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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