access for non-us packages

[Pat Greenwood]

IIci 20/1G 68030 33.6 dial-up stand-alone w/ slink 2.1 installed 3/9/99.
I am a newbie. I apologize if the answer is already out there, but I
couldn't find it (about one week trying).
I have just the basics installed, no man pages yet.

Due to the amount of time it was taking to obtain selected packages in
dselect, I edited against the Access defaults to try specific mirror
sites. I'm back to what I think were the suggested paths. I've tried:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US and
http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US non-US main contrib non-free
which I determined from reading the source for apt.

During Upgrade it seems like the http.us.debian.org...path is working,
but the non-us.debian.org... is not. It appears all efforts to access
non-us.debian.org... sites return a 404 Not Found. At the end of Upgrade
I get the error E: Packages file
/var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_binary-m68k_Packages
has changed and the script tells me to correct this. How should the
Access paths be configured?

Is it unrealistic to expect success attempting to install from the net
or should I surrender to CD's?

Is there a faster way to obtain some bells and whistles via the net? My
current plan is to Install the minimum necessary to get X Window running
with wmaker and a couple of games, then add packages later.

Pat Greenwood
Omaha
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: access for non-us packages

[James Mastros]

On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 09:05:38PM -0600, Pat Greenwood wrote:
 Due to the amount of time it was taking to obtain selected packages in
 dselect, I edited against the Access defaults to try specific mirror
 sites. I'm back to what I think were the suggested paths. I've tried:
 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
 http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US and
 http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US non-US main contrib non-free
 which I determined from reading the source for apt.
I've attached my /etc/apt/sources.list file to this email; you should be
able to simply copy it if you want a fairly bleading-edge system (potato
distribution, with yet-to-land gnome and gnome-apt front-end.  Of cource,
you don't need to get gnome if you don't want it.)

 Is it unrealistic to expect success attempting to install from the net
 or should I surrender to CD's?
It is absolutly reasonable, and I think would be considered a bug if it
dosn't work.

 Is there a faster way to obtain some bells and whistles via the net? My
 current plan is to Install the minimum necessary to get X Window running
 with wmaker and a couple of games, then add packages later.
I'd suguest enlightenment over wmaker, btw, but that's largely a personal
choice.

-=- James Mastros
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
#deb ftp://debian.midco.net/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US
#deb ftp://debian.midco.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free non-US
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US
deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main
deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt unstable main
deb http://pages.infinit.net/linux debian/

Re: access for non-us packages

[Randy Edwards]

 I'd suguest enlightenment over wmaker,

   (Hoping not to start a flame war...:-) Why?

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