Re: /etc/apt/sources.list
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:26 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:04:46AM +0800, David Palmer wrote: Having a problem - with two different releases, now, 4.0r3 and 4.0r4, on installation. For some reason the installer no longer includes John Hasler's pppconfig package (although plenty of attention is given to pppoe), setserial isn't included in the base config to assist with modem port detection, so consequently, there's no access to a mirror and the only thing that ends up in the sources.list file is the cdrom path. I could probably figure things out but I'm a bit doubtful on the syntax employed when specifying the paths in the /etc/apt/sources.list edit. I've searched everywhere fron Martin Kraft's book, to ' Linux Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition', the Debian site - including the amd64 installation manual, man pages and google.amongst others, but I can find no hard and fast specification as to whether the 'amd64' qualifier should be included in the path and if so, how it should be qualified, i.e. associated with forward slashes; underscores or hyphens. Could anybody point me to a reliable source, please? man sources.list Some examples: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ Right! So there's no need to include an amd64 rider in there at all? Apt picks it up automagically? Thanks for your help. Regards, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sources List.
Hello again, I've spent most of the day trying to get this format right. Would somebody be so kind as to look at it for me and advise what will immediately become blazingly obvious? Aptitude advises that the problem is in line 5 and I believe it because aptitude is smarter than I am. Wisdom comes with age and I'm not quite sixty yet. I've moved things around until I'm giddy and posting the answer back to the list is fine as, in the interim, I've cleared up the backlog of 10,000 emails. Regards and thanks, David Palmer. # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4 _Etch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080726-23:51]/ etch contrib main deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
Re: Sources List.
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:53 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4 _Etch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080726-23:51]/ etch contrib main deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ dists/stable-updates/ deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free As for the second line, I have no idea what it is. No, that doesn't happen in the actual file. It's just the wrap from the end of the cdrom description. Thanks for your time and trouble. Regards, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sources List.
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 10:18 -0300, Gunther Furtado wrote: snip There is no dists/stable-updates/ on http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian Maybe you should try something like: deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian stable-proposed-updates or deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian distts/stable-proposed-updates cheers, Right! So that's what the situation is. A peculiarity with that particular mirror. I had followed the directories through and seen it, but thought there would probably be something like a timed release when the name of the directory would be changed. Too complicated. Simple works. It's rated as one of the main ones on the Debian site, so I thought I'd be safe from anything like that. Probably the best thing is just to change mirrors. Regards and thanks, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/apt/sources.list
Having a problem - with two different releases, now, 4.0r3 and 4.0r4, on installation. For some reason the installer no longer includes John Hasler's pppconfig package (although plenty of attention is given to pppoe), setserial isn't included in the base config to assist with modem port detection, so consequently, there's no access to a mirror and the only thing that ends up in the sources.list file is the cdrom path. I could probably figure things out but I'm a bit doubtful on the syntax employed when specifying the paths in the /etc/apt/sources.list edit. I've searched everywhere fron Martin Kraft's book, to ' Linux Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition', the Debian site - including the amd64 installation manual, man pages and google.amongst others, but I can find no hard and fast specification as to whether the 'amd64' qualifier should be included in the path and if so, how it should be qualified, i.e. associated with forward slashes; underscores or hyphens. Could anybody point me to a reliable source, please? I'll have to read the answer in the archives as I've been off-line for a while and I've got about 10,000 emails backed up on me. With spam training on a new mail client, that's a whole separate issue Thanks for any information. Regards, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
