Re: problem with security page
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Andrew T. Young wrote:
> You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates. This requires a
> line such as
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
>
> in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
This is correct.
> However, when I put this line in the file, I get the following error
> messages on running aptitude update:
Do you mean update? If not perhaps you have either disk-full
issues, or other networking problems.
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org
> sarge/updates/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_sarge_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files
> W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files
If you'd added this line to your sources.list file then ran
aptitude up*GRADE*
You'd see an error message like you have posted.
> It seems that I have to put "stable" rather than "sarge" in the deb line
> in /etc/apt/sources.list .
'sarge' is supported.
Steve
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