On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:09:36AM -0500, Brian Boonstra wrote: > Hi > > I'm not stupid, but I feel that way sometimes; I seem to be unable > to get my sources.list right for KDE. Examining the lynx -dump command (see > > below), we find that the Packages.gz file resides in the same place as all > the .deb files. According to my understanding, apt-get looks for the > Packages.gz file in the second field (URI) of the sources.list, and the .deb > files themselves in the third field (distribution). So I reckon my entry > should look like this: > > deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386 / > > > which totally does not work, or like this > > deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato i386/ > > which seems happy, but then doesn't show the packages as available for > dselect. Has anyone worked this out? > > Ho,
a good hint from someone was: deb http://sunsite.tut.fi/ftp/Mirror/debian/ruins.tdyc.com/pub potato kde contrib rkrusty kde2 it works for me - from germany Ingo

