On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
>
>
> From: Paolo Molaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> # > Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian
> # > package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)?
> #
> # apt-get source lib*-perl should do it.
>
> Silly question : where do I get source packages? I did what I think
> correct from the sources.list, apt-get manpages (put deb-src lines
> in sources.list, just like deb lines), but still get :
>
> anonimo:/home/etienne/prog/perl/bloksi/tmp# apt-get source mailtools
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Could not open file
>/var/state/apt/lists/sunsite.org.uk_Mirrors_ftp.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_potato_contrib_source_Sources
> - open (2 No such file or directory)
Have you done an apt-get update or dselect update?
Julian
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