Mario It is my intention to install aptitude then to use that to upgrade my old (pre-beta, circa Nov 2001) Woody system to Stable Woody, then to upgrade to Sarge, then keep it that way.
I tried to fetch aptitude using apt-get per our discussion of last week. Here is the list of errors followed by my /etc/apt/sources.list It appears to me that something is wrong in my sources.list Please advise what needs to be changed. Partial transcript of apt-get attempt: elentari:/etc/apt# apt-get install aptitude Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package aptitude has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Pack ages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_contrib_binary-i386_P ackages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_non-free_binary-i386_ Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) <SNIP> If you need the rest, I'll be happy to send it. It all looks the same to me :( -- Kinda like the sources.list is wrong. My sources.list follows. # # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-US.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free This is the sources.list that was used to update the Potato system to Woody in November except for the security line which came from advice from someone on this list. What do I do to fix this? Thanks David Teague Please CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
