Dave Stevens wrote: > >here is the message I get when Synaptic starts up: > >Couldn't stat source package list http://people.debian.org ./ Packages >(/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7efpeters_gnome2.4_._Packages) - stat (2 >No such file or directory) > > > Try "apt-get update" first, then re-run synaptic.