jeremy bentham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I can only plead that as a recent emigre from slackware land, I
> became dazzled by Debian's slick package-management system and
> began to expect it to read my mind.
Have you looked at Zenwalk? It's a SW downstream, and its netpkg
rivals apt for dazzle
On Nov 19 you wrote:
> On Mon,17.Nov.08, 19:32:42, jeremy bentham wrote:
> > > > My sources.list
> > > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib
> > > > non-free
> > > > per the README at the archive site.
> > > That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive d
On Mon,17.Nov.08, 19:32:42, jeremy bentham wrote:
> > > My sources.list
>
> > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib non-free
>
> > > per the README at the archive site.
>
> > That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive directory on
> > archive.debian.org,
jeremy bentham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Please, no {advice, orders} to upgrade to etch. Consider this a
> question about aptitude/sources.list/archives.
Fine. Why would you expect Sarge to work anymore? Just curious.
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On Nov 18 you wrote:
> On 2008-11-17 23:44 +0100, jeremy bentham wrote:
> > I can't use aptitude anymore.
> > It was working, pre-sarge-archive.
> > Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this:
> > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/main
> > Packages (/v
On 2008-11-17 23:44 +0100, jeremy bentham wrote:
> I can't use aptitude anymore.
>
> It was working, pre-sarge-archive.
>
> Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this:
>
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/main
> Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian
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