On Monday 17 July 2006 12:56, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/16/06, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 17 July 2006 02:51, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > > [...] > > > > > Can anyone tell me just what the error messages I was getting to start > > > with meant? > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://demudi.agnula.org > > > demudi/main/updates Packages > > > (/var/lib/apt/lists/demudi.agnula.org_packages_demudi_dists_demudi_main > > >_upd ates_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > > --------------------------------- > > > > I think it means that a package-list file on your system is non-existent, > > incomplete or corrupt, due to an interrupted download, a mirror problem, > > filesystem corruption or whatever. It can normally be fixed by re-running > > apt-get update. (Stat is a command which displays files.) > > Sorry to dwell on this, but- so it was looking for the files to match > the URLs it was checking? And when I hit "reload" it replaces the > files...
I don't use synaptic so I don't know what "reload" means in that context, but as you probably know, synaptic is a front-end for apt-get, so I'll try to give my non-expert understanding of it, hoping that any apt-get gurus will correct my errors. Each Debian-style mirror has a file called Packages which contains an up-to date list of packages available in that repository. When you do apt-get update, for each mirror in sources.list that file is copied into your /var/lib/apt/lists directory, overwriting any older files with the same name. Apt-get reads these files so it knows what it is looking for when doing installs. If a Packages file is not there or not right, you get an error like the one above. HTH, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]