Well, I believe the "red screen of non-death" as you put it behaves
exactly as it was intended in the interactive side of aptitude. From
the command-line, the error message makes sense as well. Aptitude is
recognizing that your sources don't match up with what packages that
are currently listed,
Ben Bettin wrote:
I see, didn't realize you were using it on the command-line. I
usually use it interactively.
When I adjust my sources.list and run 'aptitude' from the
command-line, a big nasty red window pops up and lists the errors you
describe. At the bottom is an 'ok' button or some-such, yo
I see, didn't realize you were using it on the command-line. I
usually use it interactively.
When I adjust my sources.list and run 'aptitude' from the
command-line, a big nasty red window pops up and lists the errors you
describe. At the bottom is an 'ok' button or some-such, you just hit
enter
Ben Bettin wrote:
When you get that error message, scroll down to the bottom. Near the
bottom it will have a message recommending that you "Update" to remedy
the problem. Should be just above the 'ok' button. ;)
Ben
Hi Debianers,
I'm running sarge 2.4.27-1-386 and normally use aptitude (ver.0.
When you get that error message, scroll down to the bottom. Near the
bottom it will have a message recommending that you "Update" to remedy
the problem. Should be just above the 'ok' button. ;)
Ben
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:04:30 +0100, Jonathan Kaye
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Debianers,
>
Hi Debianers,
I'm running sarge 2.4.27-1-386 and normally use aptitude (ver.0.2.15.8)
for handling my packages. I noticed that if I add a new source to
sources.list and then run "aptitude update", I get the hated
"W: Couldn't stat source package list.." error message.
If I first run apt-get (apt
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