[oclug] apt-get questions

Dana Webber dana at dunrobin.dyn.dhs.org
Thu Jul 29 14:33:31 EDT 2004


Excuse me while I go soak my head in a pail of water.......


now I always get at least one error.

debian:/1/deb# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 
(20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

debian:/1/deb# apt-cache update
E: Invalid operation update
debian:/1/deb#

Adding the last line creates more error messages

 debian:/1/deb# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 
(20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main  contrib non-free

debian:/1/deb# apt-cache update
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main 
Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib 
Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/non-free 
Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
E: Invalid operation update
debian:/1/deb#




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