On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, James Miller wrote: > I've been trying to add a certain entry to my sources.list file (this is > Ubuntu--a newer Debian variant) but cannot puzzle out the right form for > it. I've looked at the Apt how to at Debian's site, as well as the > sources.list manpage: I didn't read them from beginning to end, but > looking in the places that seemed most relevant didn't turn up the answer. > This is not a standard Debian source, but a related project. Part of the > problem here is that the documentation wants to show you how standard, > Debian entries look and to explain the components. But since I'm not > using a standard Debian source, I suppose I'll need to transpose them > somehow to my situation. But I can't find the right information to allow > me to do the transposing. Maybe someone here can help? The source I'm > trying to add is: > > deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/Ubuntu/apt/ binary/ > > This is the way the url was listed in a posting I found. I checked the > url and it is active, and sure enough, in the binary directory, there is a > Packages.gz file as I understand there should be. When I add that line to > sources.list and then start Synaptic (sissified gui thingy for apt) I get > an error message about "couldn't stat source package." What am I doing > wrong, and how do I add this entry successfully to sources.list? > > Thanks, James
Wednesday, December 08 03:38:31 Maybe this will help you further.. ? article At: http://rage.against.org/UbuntuInstall After some Googling, I found this "reported" bug. The solution apparently lies in installing a lot of packages which weren't bundled on the distribution or apt sources (licensing issues), by uncommenting the two lines with repository "universe" on /etc/apt/sources.list (basically gives you access to software unsupported by the Ubuntu team and which may not be under a free license) and add deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty multiverse to the same file, issuing "apt-get update" afterwards. G00G0ldLuCk.. ;-) J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
