Ronald what EXACTLY are you trying to accomplish here? The bsdutils are a collection of commands from the 4.4BSD era that are now included in the util-linux package which is available from Kernel.org
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ "Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I need to get sources for the Linux version of certain programs that > reside in a package called "bsdutils". I have built and installed > the "apt-get" program and now I'm just trying to use it, and things > are going very badly indeed. > > Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here? The errors I am > getting are shown below, and here are the current contents of my > /usr/local/etc/apt/sources.list file: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy > # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs > # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. > deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted contrib > non-free > > # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work > deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted > contrib non-free > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Here's what happens when I try to fetch the sources: > > > % apt-get source bsdutils > Reading package lists... 0%Reading package lists... 100%Reading package > lists... Done > Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 0%Building > dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency > tree... Done > W: Couldn't stat source package list > http://us.archive.ubuntu.commaverick/main Packages > (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list > http://us.archive.ubuntu.commaverick/restricted Packages > (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_restricted_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list > http://us.archive.ubuntu.commaverick/contrib Packages > (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_contrib_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list > http://us.archive.ubuntu.commaverick/non-free Packages > (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_non-free_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > E: Could not open file > /var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_source_Sources > - open (2 No such file or directory) > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
