On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:18:45PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 06:15:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:57:51PM +0100, Oliver Hingst wrote: > >> > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/ potato main contrib non-free > >> > > >> > adding "non-US" to this, gives an error about not being able to download > >> > the Packages.gz file. What line must I add to get the package list from > >> > the UK Debian server for non-US packages ? > >> > >> try: > >> > >> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free > > > >Probably need to get rid of the trailing '/' after debian. > > I think you'll also need non-US/main, etc., judging from the directory > organization on ftp.uk.debian.org. > > My /etc/apt/sources.list reads, in part (apologies for the lack of > line-wrapping): > > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/non-US woody non-US/main non-US/contrib > non-US/non-free
No, specifying "woody/non-US" means you only need to specify "main contrib non-free" as in the original example. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
