On Friday 28 May 2004 16:08, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't have this manual 5 apt_preferences installed. When I > > create the preferences file name, I get: E: Invalid record in > > preferences file... > > My guess is that you have to create the file /etc/apt/preferences, > but I don't know much about knoppix.
Knoppix has the usual apt conf and preferences files - comes set up for testing, with testing at 900 and unstable at 600 IIRC. Knoppix sources.list by default has sources for stable as well. > Anyway here is a link to a > relevant page in apt-howto. > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-de >fault-version > > If you get an error named invalid record then you may have made a > typing error in the file. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]