On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:51:13PM -0500, alex wrote: > I'm having a problem understanding the architecture of apt sources > and have difficulty in getting packages with apt and dselect. > > According to the APT HOWTO, 2.1, The /etc/apt/sources.list file > it says: (quote) > "The entries in this file normally follows this format:" > > "deb-http://site.http.org/debian distribution section1 section2 section3" > > "deb-src http://site.http.org/debian distribution section1 section2 > section3" > > Question---isn't 'site.http' supposed to be 'http.site' ?
"site.http.org" is just an opaque string. Its contents aren't important. (The document should probably use example.org, though.) > --------- > The following sources are copied directly from my > /etc/apt/sources.list. It seems to me that there are errors > such as / either missing or in the wrong place. > > Could someone comment on whether or not the sources are correctly > structured as is or what the error is? > ----- > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main/ > ^-- main/ or main? Just "main". > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib > non-free ^-- / or space? "stable/non-US" is correct; that's identifying a directory under http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/. > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main > contrib non-free ^-- / or space? > > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib > non-free ^-- / or space ? > > > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main > contrib non-free ^-- / or space? All correct. > # deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free > ^------^-------^------ ????? Correct. What errors are you getting from 'dselect update'? -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
