Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.11.1-4 Followup-For: Bug #286974 Hello I will be very verbose, in the hope it can helps. I have exactly the same problem as described in the first bug rebort, ie after addind entries to /etc/apt/sources.list, aptitude update does not work, but apt-get update does the job.
So #cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ woody main Now if I change this entry to have also contrib and non-free #cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ woody main contrib non-free 1 - If I use aptitude update from the command line after this modification of the sources.list #aptitude update Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.fr.debian.org woody/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_contrib_binary-sparc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.fr.debian.org woody/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_non-free_binary-sparc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files 2 - And if instead I use apt-get update after the modification of the sources.list #apt-get update Hit http://ftp.fr.debian.org woody/main Packages Hit http://ftp.fr.debian.org woody/main Release Get:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org woody/contrib Packages [39.3kB] Get:2 http://ftp.fr.debian.org woody/contrib Release [99B] Get:3 http://ftp.fr.debian.org woody/non-free Packages [47.7kB] Get:4 http://ftp.fr.debian.org woody/non-free Release [100B] Fetched 87.2kB in 1s (66.6kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 3 - And if instead If I use aptitude in ncurses gui ( launching it with "aptitude " ) after the modification of the sources list (sorry unable to copy text from these ncurses box ) A message says : couldn,t start source package lists http://ftp.fr.debian.org woody/contrib Packages bla bla bla ( exactly the same as the error message with aptitude update in command line ) If I choose update by typing U it updates all the packages correctly ( I see the 6 http connections to the three repositories ) The end Once the update of packages lists has been done correctly, either by the "aptitude" ncurses gui, or by the "apt-get update "command, the "aptitude update" command works as expected. Hope that's enough. Manu -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: sparc Kernel: Linux bombadil2 2.4.19 #1 Fri Oct 4 18:36:11 EDT 2002 sparc64 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.2- 0.5.4 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.2.5-11.8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++0 1.0.4-3 Type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
