On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Andrew T. Young wrote: > You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates. This requires a > line such as > > deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free > > in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
This is correct. > However, when I put this line in the file, I get the following error > messages on running aptitude update: Do you mean update? If not perhaps you have either disk-full issues, or other networking problems. > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org > sarge/updates/main Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_sarge_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files > W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files If you'd added this line to your sources.list file then ran aptitude up*GRADE* You'd see an error message like you have posted. > It seems that I have to put "stable" rather than "sarge" in the deb line > in /etc/apt/sources.list . 'sarge' is supported. Steve -- # Debian System Administration www.debian-administration.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
