On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > > > From: Paolo Molaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > # > Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian > # > package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)? > # > # apt-get source lib*-perl should do it. > > Silly question : where do I get source packages? I did what I think > correct from the sources.list, apt-get manpages (put deb-src lines > in sources.list, just like deb lines), but still get : > > anonimo:/home/etienne/prog/perl/bloksi/tmp# apt-get source mailtools > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Could not open file > /var/state/apt/lists/sunsite.org.uk_Mirrors_ftp.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_potato_contrib_source_Sources > - open (2 No such file or directory)
Have you done an apt-get update or dselect update? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/