I have recently made the switch over to debian and am definitely a newbie. I noticed that when using the apt utilities like apt-get and apt-cache, much of the software that I want just isn't available in stable (stable worked fine though). so i moved over to testing but couldn't get it to work. here are the steps that I took... 1. first used apt-spy to get a list of testing servers 'apt-spy -d testing' 2. then tried 'apt-cache search firebird' but it didn't work it kept on giving me a "Couldn't stat source package list ftp://mirrors.usc.edu TESTING/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.usc.edu_pub_linux_distructions_debian_dists_TESTING_contrib_binary_i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)" error type of message for each testing source in my sources.list file
i then tried running 'apt-get update' and got the same error. why does this process work under stable but not testing? I have scoured the google groups site trying to figure this out and have read close to a hundred articles probably and would really appreciate some help. Anyone? Thanks! Enantiomer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
