Re: corrupted sources.list (file below)

[Dale]

Sam Rosenfeld wrote: My sources.list file is listed in its entirety below. On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: My version of debian 3.1 was downloaded via the net, and the original files, which contained the info for the sources.list file, have been lost. When I try to install package pkg with "apt-get install pkg" I get the following message: W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Package pkg has no installation candidate I have running apt-get update with zero results. In addition, I have a strange (to me) problem with my "man" bin file; it doesn't get and display the contents of manpages (though they exist in my /usr/share/man/man1-8/ folders). Is it possible that this man problem is related to the sources.list problem? Will appreciate any clear doc (or explanation) dealing with either or both of the above problem(s). # See sources.list(5) for more information, especially # 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 stable/updates main contrib non-free # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free 1. A Working version of sources.list, on a box set up for UK operation is: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main The second line may be commented out if you do not need source. 2. Similar problems can occur if your DHCP / DNS is not set up correctly. Have you looked there?.   From the debian box, try:    ping   security.debian.org   to see if your dns etc is working OK dale