On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:23:24 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > On 11/12/2010, Patrick Wiseman <pwise...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you Patrick. > > On a casual browse saw Cameleon had also responded. FWIW here are the > things requested.
Your filtering method is too agressive. > $ sudo aptitude update (...) > squeeze/updates/non-free amd64 Packages Err http://www.mirrorservice.org > squeeze/updates/non-free amd64 Packages > 404 Not Found [IP: 212.219.56.139 80] (...) You got an error from that mirror host. > Ok because there are no updates as of yet hence cannot put up the second > one. I saw no errors (just the one from the mirror). > As far as the third one here it is :- > > ~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list > # > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux squeeze _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot > amd64 DVD Binary-1 20101122-04:58]/ squeeze contrib main > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux squeeze _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot > amd64 DVD Binary-1 20101122-04:58]/ squeeze contrib main These two are for the DVD. If you do not have the DVD disc inserted anymore, maybe you should comment (#) these lines :-? > # Debian Main > deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze > main contrib non-free > > # Debian Security > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free These two are o.k. > # Unofficial Maintainers > # deb http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ squeeze main contrib > non-free restricted > > # Debian-Multimedia.org Repository > deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ > squeeze/updates non-free > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free These two are outside Debian support scope, I guess. It is okay to have them but be careful to avoid collisions. > As far as my choice of mirrorservice.org is concerned its simply because > that's what Best Server gave me as . You can change it to whatever mirror you prefer if the host is giving you problems: http://www.debian.org/mirror/list Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.12.12.11.32...@gmail.com
