You need a separate line in sources.list for non-US, usually of the format: <mirror of choice>/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Russ Pitman wrote: > In /etc/apt/sources.list I have, > > deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free non-US > > Running apt-get update gives the following, > > --start here > > Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Packages > Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Release > Get:1 ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Packages > Err ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Packages > Unable to fetch file, server said > '/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or > directory ' > Get:2 ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Release > Ign ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Release > Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages > Unable to fetch file, server said > '/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or > directory ' > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US > Packages' > (/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.ca.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_non-US_binary-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > --end here--- > > Tried local mirror and got similiar results. Could someone advise a > correct URL line to access the non-US directories. > > Thanks, > -- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
