-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Peter Mickle wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 12:25:53PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: > > On 24-Aug-1999, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi people, > > > > > > You can find mozilla .debs compiled for glibc2.0 (slink version) here: > > > > > > http://pandora.debian.org/~joy/slink/ > > > > > hi, i get the message "Malformed line ..." when i include the above in my > sources.list file in order to try to "apt-get" mozilla. could someone > please help with the correct address? thanks, In order for apt-get to be able to find the packages, it requires a Packages or Packages.gz file. And in order to write the proper sources.list line, you need to know the format of the Filename field in that Packages file. For example, the Packages file for unstable main on http.us.debian.org has a filename line like this: Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/apt_0.3.11.deb The apt sources.list line for this archive is like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free Notice that if you take the first field ("http://http.us.debian.org/debian") and add the filename to it, you get the path where you can download the package: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/apt_0.3.11.deb So, if the filename line in the Packages file for your mozilla website were "slink/mozilla_19990716.M8-2.deb", the sources.list line would be "deb http://pandora.debian.org/~joy slink/". If the filename line were "./mozilla_19990716.M8-2.deb", the sources.list line would be "deb http://pandora.debian.org/~joy/slink /". The slash at the end tells apt that it should only look in the specific path http://pandora.debian.org/~joy/slink/ for the Packages file. Without the slash, at least three fields are required, e.g. "http://http.us.debian.org/debian", "unstable", and "main". apt takes these and pieces them together into a specification for the path to the particular architecture you need. As has been pointed out, you'll probably just have to download the debs by hand and install them with dpkg -i. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8oaaL7M/9WKZLW5AQGB5QP+LGSwcvoFcQeS7fI8OtGXIs4uv6y09Cy7 oD8EAdxO8RDIajBU7kduGDfcoA5/ZKY722Mezu5SLdqQxP2YI+GQbXd2ZxJfCk+o ZdWiOUMCLludMRg6uUBq9EvxD1aCIDEdeV6UkMcXKyaj4NjGFbCi4Df1Ok+RLJ+r W69Dzr9w+JQ= =AGs7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----