I see, didn't realize you were using it on the command-line. I usually use it interactively.
When I adjust my sources.list and run 'aptitude' from the command-line, a big nasty red window pops up and lists the errors you describe. At the bottom is an 'ok' button or some-such, you just hit enter and it loads up aptitude. Then i hit 'u' for update. You can see it getting the new package lists from the sources. After it's done, everything is happy and working great. I'm not sure what the difference is between 'aptitude update' and hitting 'u' when in aptitude's interactive console menus. Perhaps it's a bug in the program that's causing you to have this problem? Sorry for the confusion, hope this helps. Ben On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:35:11 +0100, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Bettin wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > >>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 > > Hi Ben, > Thanks for the reply but I'm afraid you didn't understand my question. > The problems arise when I AM updating - in aptitude. Since I'm running > aptitude on a command line there are no buttons. I see the message > "W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files" > As I said, I know how to fix the problem: I run apt-get update. My > questions were as I stated them at the end of the original posting. > Cheers, > 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]
