[Gllug] Debian question from a RH user

Ken Smith kens at kensnet.org
Mon Sep 29 18:55:09 UTC 2008


John Winters wrote:
> Ken Smith wrote:
>   
>> Craig Millar wrote:
>>     
>>> On 29/09/08 14:56 +0100, Ken Smith wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I normally use RedHat style systems but today I'm dealing with a Debian 
>>>> 4 system. I need to install ifenslave-2.6 and apt-get install 
>>>> ifenslave-2.6 can't find the package.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> http://packages.debian.org/etch/all/ifenslave/download has a link to the
>>> package and instructions to add the repository.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Excellent that fixed it. I'm surprised that the right stanza isn't in 
>> sources.list
>>     
>
> If it isn't then there's something very odd about your sources.list.
>
> What did it contain before and what did you change it to?
>
> John
>
>   
Here's the sources list

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 
20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 
20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main


deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian etch main <--------------I added 
this line
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib


:-)


Ken

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