On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:58:20AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > yes you need to put > > deb http://ftp...../debian/ stable main... > deb-src http://,,,,/debian/ stable main ... > > sources.list tells apt where to find the packages. > > but you also need to edit /etc/apt/apt.conf My sarge doesn't have an /etc/apt/apt.conf file. Instead, it has an /etc/apt/apt.conf.d dirextory. -- hendrik