on Sun, 17 Nov 2002 10:37:34PM +0000, Colin Watson insinuated: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:31:04PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > okay, this is good to know. i guess then my /etc/apt/sources.list is > > borked? because i get this every time: > > > > orange:~> apt-get source centericq -t unstable > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > E: Could not open file > > /var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7emadduck_internal_._Packages - > > open (13 Permission denied) > > What are the permissions on /var/lib/apt/lists/*? Everything there > except lock and partial should be 0644.
wa-hoo! of course ... didn't even think to look there. changed to 644 (btw, can anyone enlighten me on specifying the first bit (*0*644) all the time? i never have, and haven't had any problems), and all works. thanks! </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^
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