Rob, I think it's comming along: > > If so, apparently the following is > > wrong/insufficient:=20 > >=20 > > Acquire > > { > > Retries "0"; > > // I added this next subsection: > > http=20 > > { > > Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128"; > > Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT"; // Specific per-host setting > > Timeout "120"; > > Pipeline-Depth "5"; > > =20 > > // 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 =20 > > }; > > }; > > Are you actually intending to run a proxy on this machine? If not, > comment out the Proxy lines in this section and try "apt-get udpate" > again.
I did as you said, literally (commented out just the two proxy lines), and it may have gone better. This time I piped the output, so know I captured the entire file. It starts with a lot of this: Err cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20021218)] unstable/contrib Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CDs Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20021218)] unstable/contrib Release I get this for all severel installation disks. Is this because the disks are listed in my /etc/apt/apt.conf file? If so, should the cdrom lines be removed from there; or should I just ignore all these error messages? Finnally, I get to what I hope is what I am supposed to see: Hit http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages Hit http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Release Hit http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/contrib Packages Hit http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/contrib Release Hit http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/non-free Packages Hit http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/non-free Release Hit http://debian.teleglobe.net woody/non-US/main Packages Hit http://debian.teleglobe.net woody/non-US/main Release Hit http://debian.teleglobe.net woody/non-US/contrib Packages Hit http://debian.teleglobe.net woody/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://debian.teleglobe.net woody/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://debian.teleglobe.net woody/non-US/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... "Hit" is a nice word. I hope it is what I should expect. But it failed the test. I wanted to install sudo, which is not on my distribution cdroms, and so ran: # aptitude install sudo All I get is a lot of warnings that it can't find the file on the cdrom disks. No sign that it tried any web respositories. It is reading the cdrom section of my /etc/apt/sources.list, but not its deb-src http... entries. Haines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]