This one time, at band camp, Laura Rudmin said: > Laura Rudmin wrote: > > (for some reason, though I sent this, it never came back through the > list server... I'm trying again). Got it twice, but that's OK (^: > It isn't working yet -- I get back "malformed line" when I enter > deb ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.4/Debian/sid > > When I try "man sources.list", it seems to imply that I should have the > ftp pointing at some particular point in the directory structure, but it > doesn't specify what that point is. > > What *should* I be using instead? > > - Michael apt wants a starting point, and a distribution and subset within that tree: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
Means go to http://security.debian.org/, look in the stable/updates directory, and then look in main, contrib, and non-free. Ordinarily, when the site is set up with a normal hierarchy, the actual file looked for would be: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz apt fills in the /dists/ and binary-$ARCH unless told not to. So for yours, since the tree structure is a little different than the normal Debian one, you probably want to amend it to look something like: deb ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.4/Debian/sid ./ at a guess - take a look at their site and see how is organized to be sure. HTH, Steve -- To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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