On 27-Jun-2002 Michael Jinks wrote: > Hi, all. I think I just need to RTFM but I don't know where. > > As established at considerable length in another thread, I need to > install XFree86 4.2 on a woody machine. I have lots of URL's for > mirrors of the version currently being tested, for example: > > deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/xsf sid/i386 / > > But when that line is added to my sources.list, I get this error from > 'apt-get update': > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www.phy.olemiss.edu > sid/i386// Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/www.phy.olemiss.edu_xsf_dists_sid_i386___binary-i386_Packa > ges) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > > Needless to say, the version of XFree that I get is still the one > included in the main woody archive. > > So, what am I doing wrong or what document should I have read before I > tried this? So far I've looked around at any apt documentation I can > find with a casual search, but I'm not finding anything about how to > manage packages from outside one's current distribution. >
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