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 [-; .
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Dave Williams
dnw@eskimo.com
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