On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:21:31PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi. Sorry for all the re-postings. If anyone couldn't read any of the posts, > this was probably do to the fact I was using plain text instead of html. I > have changed the settings, and hope to have solved this problem. Anyway, my > problem is that when I try to add one of my source distribution Cds to apt > sources, Apt terminates with the following: Found 0 package indexes and 4 > source indexes. Reading source indexes. Done. W: 0 records were written. E: > Handler silently failed. Why could I be experiencing this? I am running > potato 2.2 with 2.2r5 packages and the 2.2r2 base system and > 2.2.18pre21-idepci kernel. The reason for this is that I am a blind Linux > user running Speakup, a TTS (Text to Speech) package. It was pre-compiled > into the 2.2r2 distribution, but not r5. So I installed the base system from > 2.2r2, and then proceeded to install the other packages such as Lynx, gcc, > from the 2.2r5 binary distribution set. Could this have anything to do with > the problem I am experiencing with adding source disks to apt's sources.list? > I am relatively new to Debian, but not to Unix in general however. Any help > on this would be apreciated. Thanks!
The only messages I've seen on this problem indicated the solution was to upgrade apt. Try reinstalling apt from the 2.2r5 distribution set. -- Jerome
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