On Saturday 15 July 2006 21:05, you wrote: > On 7/15/06, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 15 July 2006 18:42, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > > > Synaptic: > > > > > > > > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://demudi.agnula.org > > > demudi/main/updates Packages > > > (/var/lib/apt/lists/demudi.agnula.org_packages_demudi_dists_demudi_main > > >_upd ates_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: > > > Couldn't stat source package list http://demudi.agnula.org > > > demudi/main/updates Packages > > > (/var/lib/apt/lists/demudi.agnula.org_packages_demudi_dists_demudi_main > > >_upd ates_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: > > > Couldn't stat source package list http://demudi.agnula.org > > > demudi/main/updates Packages > > > (/var/lib/apt/lists/demudi.agnula.org_packages_demudi_dists_demudi_main > > >_upd ates_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > > > > > I checked, and none of the urls exist, nor do the local directories. > > > I can find what the correct links should be, but how do I tell apt > > > what the correct links are? > > > > [...] > > > > If synaptic has no way of setting package repositories (I use Kpackage > > which does), you'll need to edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and put > > in the correct URLs. Make sure you follow the format of the existing > > entries, or read man sources.list for a description of how they work. > > The local file paths are incorrect as well... does that mean fixing > the URLs won't help until I fix those as well? > [...]
I'm pretty sure that if all is working, the files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ will take care of themselves - they get overwritten on each update. That said, it can't hurt to delete any files in /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ in case they are blocking the update somehow - I remember having that problem once. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
