[lug] apt-get errors

Nick Golder purenrg at hiveportal.net
Fri Jan 30 11:11:04 MST 2004


On 2004-01-30 09:21 -0700, Gary Hodges wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
> 
> >
> >If it was the *first* use of apt-get update, in the sequence that I 
> >outlined,
> >you were not sucessful in your install of Woody. You can save a lot of time
> >in debugging this, by not attempting to go on until you have Woody 
> >correctly
> >installed. 
> >
> 
> Sorry, I misunderstood you.  "apt-get update" while running woody worked 
> fine everytime.  It was only after the upgrade to sarge that I started 
> having problems
> 
> >Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list files? 
> >i.e. the one that you were using to complete your install of Woody, and the
> >one that you used in the attempt to migrate to Sarge (Actually, I'm not 
> >much interested in the second at this stage, since I'm thinking that there
> >is something wrong with the install of Woody.)
> >
> 
> Here is a current sources.list file.  It is currently set up for sarge, 
> but it was fine when it was configured for woody.  All I did was a 
> search and replace with emacs.  Maybe something happened there?  I 
> didn't save a copy of that file before editing.
> 
> --------------
> tsi at gwn-tsi:/etc/apt$ more sources.list
> 
> deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib 
> non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib 
> non-fre
> e
> 
> deb http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib 
> non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib 
> non-fre
> e
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free

Also whack security updates.  Since sarge isn't a stable release, there
is no need for updates because it isn't frozen yet.

-- 
-Nick Golder
http://www.hiveportal.net



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