On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Brian
<ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 08:00:40 +0000, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote:
> After changing the sourcelist by the following:
> ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
> ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_Packages)
> ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
> http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_Packages)
> http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
> http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_non-free_binary-i386_Packages)
> security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
> security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages)
If you have this as the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list it is totally
invalid, which is why you get
> E: The list of sources could not be read.
Delete all its contents and, for now, have
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
as the only line.
Then apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, reboot and apt-get dist-upgrade.
How well this will go I do not know because it isn't too easy to tell
what you are upgrading from. The output of the command 'cat /etc/issue'
would inform you and us.
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