Re: Problem using "apt-get update"

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 02/24/2018 12:02 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Richard Owlett composed on 2018-02-24 10:48 (UTC-0600):
>
> > I had just done a minimal (command line only) install of Stretch from
> > the first DVD of the complete set rather than using netinst to conserve
> > bandwidth. The install as usual was successful.
>
> > I wish to install a package from the repository - it's not on DVD1.
> > I added the line
> >         deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
> > to sources.list while commenting out the line referencing CDROM.
>
> > I attempted to run "apt-get update".
> > It *FAILED*
> > The message was the source I wanted was being ignored.
>
> > WHY?
>       Mirror problems in .us.???

No. A typo in the following "apt-get install ..." line ;/


> Do you get also get failure if you s/apt-get/apt/g ?