Re: Media player
On Wed November 29 2006 11:49 am, Brian Durant wrote:
> On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > On Wed November 29 2006 10:53 am, Brian Durant wrote:
> > > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote:
> > > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <betalb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет:
> > > > > > > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb
> > > > > > > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Brian
> > > > > >
> > > > > > no
> > > > > > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
> > > > >
> > > > > I got the following error message:
> > > > >
> > > > > "W: Couldn't stat source package list
> > > > > http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages
> > > > > (/var/lib/apt/lists/www.debian-multimedia.org_dists_etch_main_binar
> > > > >y-i3 86_P ackages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)"
> > > >
> > > > I would try replacing etch with stable/testing/unstable, or use one
> > > > of the mirrors listed at http://debian-multimedia.org/mirrors.html
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I have been there and done that. I can't get any of the
> > > mirrors near me to function, nor can I get anything with "testing". I
> > > get the same errors on all of them.
> >
> > Yep, I had to do a bit of adjusting to find a testing mirror for my amd64
> > machine. ATM I am using http://debian-multimedia.dfoell.org on this
> > stable box and it works well. I think I am using the same mirror on my
> > testing box but I'm not certain. Might have to try a few to get one that
> > has your arch and version of debian.
>
> See, that's the thing. Being a newbie, I am not really sure of the
> syntax. Is it something like this?
>
> deb http://debian-multimedia.dfoell.org/ testing main binary-i386
>
> I got errors from that line as well.
I think..
deb http://debian-multimedia.dfoell.org/ testing main
will do the trick. I just had a look at that web site and they have quite a
few arch's there including i386 amd64 sparc and a few others for stable
testing and unstable. No need for the binary-???, apt will handle that
itself.. :)
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