When you get that error message, scroll down to the bottom. Near the bottom it will have a message recommending that you "Update" to remedy the problem. Should be just above the 'ok' button. ;)
Ben On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:04:30 +0100, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Debianers, > I'm running sarge 2.4.27-1-386 and normally use aptitude (ver.0.2.15.8) > for handling my packages. I noticed that if I add a new source to > sources.list and then run "aptitude update", I get the hated > "W: Couldn't stat source package list.." error message. > If I first run apt-get (apt 0.5.27) then everything works perfectly. If > I then run aptitude update (probably vacuously since I guess apt-get > update has already done what needs to be done), no more error messages. > I scoured the man pages, help files, and googled around quite a bit and > only found one thread that dealt with this question. The thread seemed > to presuppose that everyone knows you do apt-get update and NOT aptitude > update after modifying you sources.list file. > > First, is this true? or have I misconfigured something? > Second, if true, is it documented somewhere? > > Thanks for the help. > Jonathan > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
