Re: sarge, aptitude, archives
On Nov 19 you wrote:
> On Mon,17.Nov.08, 19:32:42, jeremy bentham wrote:
> > > > 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 [-; .
> I think you misunderstood, the correct line would be
> deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
I see I didn't put that very well; no matter. I got the line
right. My problem was simply not understanding aptitude.
After getting those error messages I merely needed to press
"return", then "u", select "become root", type root's password
and watch the progress bar....
I can only plead that as a recent emigre from slackware land, I
became dazzled by Debian's slick package-management system and
began to expect it to read my mind.
;-}
> Regards,
> Andrei
> --
> If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
> (Albert Einstein)
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Dave Williams
dnw@eskimo.com
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