apt-get question

2000-10-22 Thread Wayde C Gutman
This what I have gone through so far,

First tried to apt-get dist-update with the following in
/ect/apt/sources.list,

ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/apt 0.3.19
i386.deb
also tried,
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian_dists_potato_main_upgrade-i386_apt_0.3.19_i386.deb

Result: E: Malformed line 9

Per instruction at the Debian.org,

Took a look at the /var/state/apt/lists/partial/
Found the following,

ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_dists_potato_binary-i386_Packages

Once again, E: Malformed line 9

What seems to me is wrong is the second _dists_ in the
/var/state/apt/lists/partial/
Tried to fire up the editor to edit that out, couldn't bring up and I am
at /root

What am I not seeing and how to get this box to upgrade to potato/kernel
2.2.17 ?

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Da Book

2000-10-13 Thread Wayde C Gutman
Learning DEBIAN GNU/LINUX authored by Bill McCarty, published by
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