I don't believe www.debian.org is a site containing Debian packages. The apt package includes a sources.list which contains both us and non-us sites which will work.
I have attached a copy. There are others, such as llug.sep.bnl.gov (hopefully README.mirrors will list them some day). Bob On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > when I run dselect using apt as the method, I go to update and I get these > errors. > Get http://www.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages > Error http://www.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages > > 404 Not Found > Get http://www.debian.org frozen/main Packages > Error http://www.debian.org frozen/main Packages > 404 Not Found > Get http://www.debian.org frozen/non-free Packages > Error http://www.debian.org frozen/non-free Packages > 404 Not Found > ERROR > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz > Need package libwww-perl > ERROR > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > Need package libwww-perl > ERROR > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz > Need package libwww-perl > ERROR > ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/unstable/binary-i386/Packages.gz > Need package libwww-perl > ERROR > http://www.debian.org/archive/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz > 404 Not Found > ERROR > http://www.debian.org/archive/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > 404 Not Found > ERROR > http://www.debian.org/archive/dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz > 404 Not Found > > > I think the problem may lie in my sources.list. does anyone have an > example one that I could look at? I would like to access the frozen us > sections, and the non-us section. > Thanks > > > -bob > > UNIX _IS_ user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are. > ********************************************************************** > * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. * MS 0441 Sandia National Labs * > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Albuquerque NM 87185-0441 * > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: (505) 844-8606 * > * http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr * Fax: (505) 844-9297 * > ********************************************************************** > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/
