alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried running deselect and received this error message: > > E: Malformed line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (deb) > update available list script returned error exit status 1. > Press <enter> to continue
> This is the trouble maker line: > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/stable/ It sounds like you've got a lot of typoing going on; this should almost certainly be deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main > I checked the web for information about the trouble-maker > source and discovered that it has a history of causing > problems, going back to 1999. So, why was it on my 2003 > Debian 7 CD set? Did I get a joker set? It says 'Stable" > on the CDs. Huh? That sources.list line gets packages off the Internet, not your CDs. > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/dselect/main/binary-i386/ > Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80] That's probably another typo. Do you have 'dselect' instead of 'stable' in sources.list? How many sources do you have for Debian stable, anyways? One should be plenty... > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org > dselect/main Packages > >(/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_dselect_main_binary-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) ...all the rest of this falls out of previous errors. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
