Re: Fwd: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:14:36PM +0100, Steve Greig wrote:
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> From: Steve Greig <greigsteve@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone
> To: Stefan Pietsch <stefan.pietsch@lsexperts.de>
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> Unfortunately I do not know how to install things. The approach I took was to
> add https://packages.debian.org/jessie/jmtpfs to my sources.list and then type
> apt-get install jmtpfs into the konsole.
No, that's not how they do these things.
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/jmtpfs is merely a package
description, not a repository.
> I have pasted the response to that
> below and after that the contents of my sources.list (i tried with and without
> 'deb' in front of the line about jmtpfs in the sources.list but with the same
> error result).
Both should not work anyway. sources.list has a specific format,
violating it won't do you any good.
What you were meant to do is to add this to your sources.list:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main
and run
apt-get update
apt-get install -t wheezy-backports jtmpfs
Reco
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