On 03/29/2012 11:54 PM, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Steven, > > On Monday 13 February 2012 19:38:52 Steven Davies-Morris wrote: >> My platform is 64bit, and is up to date as of 7am today. >> >> Following along with the directions here: >> <https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads> >> >> I add the repository line: >> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib >> >> In a terminal I download the Oracle public key and register it with: >> wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc >> -O- | sudo apt-key add - >> >> I then do the install: >> sudo apt-get update >> >> I don't get as far as the install (sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1) >> because I get this message: >> W: Failed to fetch >> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/oneiric/Release >> Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/source/Sources' in Release file >> (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) >> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old >> ones used instead. >> >> Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug at the Oracle end? > > to me it seems that you also added a deb-src repository line. We don't > provide source packages for the distributions (too much effort for to > few benefit), only binary packages. > > Kind regards, > > Frank
Thank you Frank. I'll revisit this today with that in mind. -- SDM a 21st century schizoid man in SoCal Systems Theory website www.systemstheory.net "overfulnoisecascade" CD coming soon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
