John, This was my fault. I too am in a learning curve; in my case, how to migrate cleanly from drafting in a word processor to clean HTML. The ``blank lines'' in my draft apt guide are default HTML line leading, not actual blank line separators.
Sorry for the confusion. On 28 Oct 2001 at 19:53, John Gay wrote: Date forwarded: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:04:22 -0500 (EST) From: John Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Using apt_preferences? Date sent: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 19:53:32 +0000 Forwarded by: [email protected] I wanted to update my testing system to KDE2.2.1 and was usingthe info provided by Bruce Miller in his mini-HOW-TO but I'm having problems with my preferences file. The contents of /etc/apt/preferences is: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 777 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 333 But apt-get is reporting the following: Reading Package Lists... Done E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header progeny:/home/jgay# I get this no matter which command I use with apt-get. update fetches the packages from testing and unstable and finishes with this. install anything just gives me this back. I've read the apt-get and apt-preferences man pages, but everything 'seems' to be in order. Where have I gone wrong? I am looking forward to finally seeing KDE2.2.1 Thanks for all the help and support! Cheers, John Gay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
