Re: newbie needs help with synaptic

[Ed Shornock <debian-ml@crazeecanuck.homelinux.net>]

Dave Stevens wrote:

>>try "apt-get update" first, then re-run synaptic.
>>    
>>
>
>this is what happens..
>
>root@athlon:/var/lib/dpkg # apt-get update
>Err file: ./ Packages
>  File not found
>Ign file: ./ Release
>Err http://people.debian.org ./ Packages
>  404 Not Found
>Ign http://people.debian.org ./ Release
>Failed to fetch file:///opt/deb/./Packages.gz  File not found
>Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~fpeters/gnome2.4/./Packages.gz  404
>Not Found
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>W: 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)
>W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
>E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used
>instead.
>root@athlon:/var/lib/dpkg #
>
>  
>

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and either remove or comment out the lines
that reference

http://people.debian.org/~fpeters/gnome2.4/./Packages.gz
http://people.debian.org ./ Release
file:///opt/deb/./Packages.gz

and Re-run "apt-get update"

Also, if you'd like, paste the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list and we
can see if there are any invalid entries in it.