On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:06:46PM +0100, owen beresford wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:22:43 -0800, "Matt Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > "stable" and "woody" are the same; you are downloading the same list of > > packages twice. Comment out one of them. > > I also thought this, however if I use > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable
You meant to write: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main (note the "main") > apt-get objects with a syntax error. I iterated until it stopped > objecting. > Is there a manual/ spec for this file type? Of course, man 5 sources.list. > > Where did these come from? Do you have unofficial packages installed on > > your system? > > I wanted the newest version of KDE, so I pocked around a few servers. > This (extra text) was installed with one of the upgrades. > However as it is commented, it should make no difference. > > Define "unofficial packages" > Everything other than vim is installed using apt-get, > so should be part of your distrib. You can install packages from anywhere using apt-get, based on what is placed into sources.list; there is no requirement that they come from Debian. -- - mdz
