Brian Durant wrote:
> On 11/29/06, Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> Brian Durant wrote:
>> > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <lists@yeeking.net> wrote:
>> >> Brian Durant wrote:
>> >> > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <betalb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main
>> >> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb
>> >> > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???)
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I have
>> >>
>> >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
>> >>
>> >> mplayer seems to play the most different formats, esp when you
>> have the
>> >> w32codecs package installed. It's also very efficient. It can't fast
>> >> forward some avi files when you don't have the whole file though,
>> unlike
>> >> totem-xine. The mplayer plugin seems to work for realplayer
>> content e.g.
>> >> bbc as well. mplayer also supports streaming over rtsp.
>> >>
>> >> cheers
>> >>
>> >> - matthew
>> >
>> > Weird. It doesn't work for me:
>> >
>> > 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_binary-i386_Packages)
>>
>> >
>> > - stat (2 No such file or directory)
>> >
>> > I wonder what is going on? Is it my system or is it the repositories?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Brian
>> The only time I see that message is either when I haven't updated (or
>> the update failed) after a change in sources.list...
>>
>> --
>> Blessings
>>
>> Wulfmann
>
> OK, maybe I am posting the wrong error message? Here is what I get
> after I update in Synaptic:
>
> http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/dists/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz:
>
> 404 Not Found
>
> It looks to me like the path is correct, however I am a newbie so...
> am I doing something wrong?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
The error appears to be that there are two "dists" in the URL. Only one
is needed:
<http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz>
Is your sources.list entry like this?:
deb http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/
etch main