On Thu, 27 May 1999, Kent West wrote: > !Newbie Alert! > > According to the sources.list man page, "distribution can specify an exact > path, in which case the components must be omitted and distribution must > end with a slash". > > I must not understand what this means. I've used Netscape to browse to the > "Packages.gz" file at > "ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/deb/binary-i386/";, > (to verify the path) and have specified this in my sources.list file; > everything in the file is commented out except for this one line: > > deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/deb/binary-i386
deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/deb/binary-i386/ (with the slash on the end) > > but when I try to do an "apt-get update" I get the error that I have a > "Malformed line 8 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist)". > > Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. > > -- > Kent West > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. > Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC! > "Life is an ongoing classroom." - Capt. James T. Kirk, "Dreadnought" > > > -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC! "Life is an ongoing classroom." - Capt. James T. Kirk, "Dreadnought"
