I installed debian from cdrom, but now want to use apt-get (actually, aptitude) to get on-line packages. To do this I ran netselect-apt woody in the /etc/apt directory, and as a result built a /etc/apt/sources list that had a US and a non-US site uncommented.
OK, so next I want to get the sudo package and run: # apt-get install sudo Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.br.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) ... [same for three directories in each of the two source sites listed in sources list] W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Couldn't find package sudo I don't understand this. Apparently apt-get reads my sources.list, but can't use it. Running apt-get update has the same result. I added the following http subsection to /etc/apt.conf Acquire section to enable internet sources: Acquire { Retries "0"; // I added this next subsection: http { Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128";; Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT"; // Specific per-host setting Timeout "120"; Pipeline-Depth "5"; // Cache Control. Note these do not work with Squid 2.0.2 No-Cache "false"; Max-Age "86400"; // 1 Day age on index files No-Store "false"; // Prevent the cache from storing archives }; }; // Things that effect the APT dselect method DSelect { Clean "auto"; // always|auto|prompt|never }; Where did I go wrong? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
