On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 02:37:09PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > I had this same problem and just concluded they had something screwed up > in their Packages.list file. ACtually, I got the list alright, but > dselect wouldn't d/l the files saying they weren't normal files or > something like that. Just d/l the debs manually and install them. > > > !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 / Notice the space, sources.list requires atleast 3 fields.
