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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