[OT] Re: sarge, aptitude, archives
jeremy bentham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I can only plead that as a recent emigre from slackware land, I > became dazzled by Debian's slick package-management system and > began to expect it to read my mind. Have you looked at Zenwalk? It's a SW downstream, and its netpkg rivals apt for dazzle factor. Fits on a ca. 2 Gb disk, and they've a live version CD you can try. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge, aptitude, archives
On Nov 19 you wrote: > On Mon,17.Nov.08, 19:32:42, jeremy bentham wrote: > > > > My sources.list > > > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib > > > > non-free > > > > per the README at the archive site. > > > That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive directory on > > > archive.debian.org, only a debian directory. This has already been > > > reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505754. > > > So you just need to s/debian-archive/debian/ in your sources.list. > > Alas, that was the first thing I tried--well, > > s/archive.debian.org/http.us.deb.org/. > > Suppose I should have put that in my first post [-; . > I think you misunderstood, the correct line would be > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free I see I didn't put that very well; no matter. I got the line right. My problem was simply not understanding aptitude. After getting those error messages I merely needed to press "return", then "u", select "become root", type root's password and watch the progress bar I can only plead that as a recent emigre from slackware land, I became dazzled by Debian's slick package-management system and began to expect it to read my mind. ;-} > Regards, > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) -- Dave Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge, aptitude, archives
On Mon,17.Nov.08, 19:32:42, jeremy bentham wrote: > > > My sources.list > > > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib non-free > > > > per the README at the archive site. > > > That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive directory on > > archive.debian.org, only a debian directory. This has already been > > reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505754. > > > So you just need to s/debian-archive/debian/ in your sources.list. > > Alas, that was the first thing I tried--well, > s/archive.debian.org/http.us.deb.org/. > > Suppose I should have put that in my first post [-; . I think you misunderstood, the correct line would be deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: sarge, aptitude, archives
jeremy bentham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Please, no {advice, orders} to upgrade to etch. Consider this a
> question about aptitude/sources.list/archives.
Fine. Why would you expect Sarge to work anymore? Just curious.
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Re: sarge, aptitude, archives
On Nov 18 you wrote: > On 2008-11-17 23:44 +0100, jeremy bentham wrote: > > I can't use aptitude anymore. > > It was working, pre-sarge-archive. > > Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this: > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/main > > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge_ > > main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/contrib > > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge > > _contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org > > sarge/non-free > > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge > > _non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > (That's 3 _long_ lines; I broke them up for e-mail convenience.) > > My sources.list > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib non-free > > per the README at the archive site. > That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive directory on > archive.debian.org, only a debian directory. This has already been > reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505754. > So you just need to s/debian-archive/debian/ in your sources.list. Alas, that was the first thing I tried--well, s/archive.debian.org/http.us.deb.org/. Suppose I should have put that in my first post [-; . -- Dave Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge, aptitude, archives
On 2008-11-17 23:44 +0100, jeremy bentham wrote: > I can't use aptitude anymore. > > It was working, pre-sarge-archive. > > Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this: > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/main > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge_ > main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/contrib > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge > _contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/non-free > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge > _non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > (That's 3 _long_ lines; I broke them up for e-mail convenience.) > > My sources.list > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib non-free > > per the README at the archive site. That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive directory on archive.debian.org, only a debian directory. This has already been reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505754. So you just need to s/debian-archive/debian/ in your sources.list. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
