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Re: sarge, aptitude, archives



On Nov 18 you wrote:

> On 2008-11-17 23:44 +0100, jeremy bentham wrote:

> > I can't use aptitude anymore.

> > It was working, pre-sarge-archive.

> > Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this:

> > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/main
> > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge_
> > main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/contrib
> > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge
> > _contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/non-free
> > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge
> > _non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)

> > (That's 3 _long_ lines; I broke them up for e-mail convenience.)

> > My sources.list

> > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib non-free

> > per the README at the archive site.

> That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive directory on
> archive.debian.org, only a debian directory.  This has already been
> reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505754.

> So you just need to s/debian-archive/debian/ in your sources.list.

Alas, that was the first thing I tried--well,
s/archive.debian.org/http.us.deb.org/.

Suppose I should have put that in my first post [-; .

--
 Dave Williams
 dnw@eskimo.com




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