This one time, at band camp, Mick Boda wrote: >Hi All, > >tried adding > >http://people.debian.org/~blade/i386/ ./ > >to my apt-get list. recieve the following error, >E: Type (URL) is nopt known on line 8 in source.list. > >also, should I be trying to get i686 packages
You want "deb http:....", so that apt can see it's a .deb source and not a deb-src source. Wow, I just realised how much that will just zoom over a newbie's head. There's two types of package sources that you can list in the sources.list. There's the "deb" type, which is your ordinary package that most people want to install, and there's the "deb-src" type, which will list package repositories that contain Debian source packages, used for building a package from the source code. Most people don't want this, because the pre-built packages are enough. It's only when you want to start building tailor-made packages, like a build option that the official package didn't include, that you need to do this. So, that's why you need to clarify the URL of the package repository with a "deb" at the start. And for your second question, i386 packages are for all the Intel x86 family of processors, so your i686 chip will use the same as an i386. So, as far as Debian's package management system is concerned, your machine is an i386. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
