I have a friend with a new debian amd-64 install. He has unrar-free but it won't open RAR 3.0 files. It looks like it would be worthwhile to try unrar but I am not able to get appropriate access for synaptic.
I went to: http://packages.debian.org/sid/unrar/amd64/download and tried adding a line to /etc/apt/sources.list as suggested at that page but get error warnings when starting synaptic. The error text is: W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org sarge/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org sarge/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) the current sources.list file is: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070819 -12:16]/ etch contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070819 -12:16]/ etch contrib main deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib The net effect is that searching for unrar gives only the already installed unrar-free. I have the .deb package for unrar but installing it fails due to a dependency error. Can someone point me to a tutorial or explain how to get better information about the problem? This is what I got from uname: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux debianroger 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 2 20:37:02 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks very much. Dave -- Alexis Soyer, that Napoleon of the kitchen, to celebrate the ending of the Crimea war, served up a dish which he called a Culinary Emblem of Peace, containing among many other ingredients twelve boxes of lobsters and 200 eggs. - H.W. Tilman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]