Bug#240050: repeat info
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:06:46PM +0100, owen beresford wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:22:43 -0800, "Matt Zimmerman" <mdz@debian.org>
> said:
> > "stable" and "woody" are the same; you are downloading the same list of
> > packages twice. Comment out one of them.
>
> I also thought this, however if I use
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable
You meant to write:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main
(note the "main")
> apt-get objects with a syntax error. I iterated until it stopped
> objecting.
> Is there a manual/ spec for this file type?
Of course, man 5 sources.list.
> > Where did these come from? Do you have unofficial packages installed on
> > your system?
>
> I wanted the newest version of KDE, so I pocked around a few servers.
> This (extra text) was installed with one of the upgrades.
> However as it is commented, it should make no difference.
>
> Define "unofficial packages"
> Everything other than vim is installed using apt-get,
> so should be part of your distrib.
You can install packages from anywhere using apt-get, based on what is
placed into sources.list; there is no requirement that they come from
Debian.
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- mdz
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