[Herts] RE: Debian Install

[Mr. Spock]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:23:19AM -0000, Nicolas Pike wrote:
> Thanks for the very useful links re installing etc Debian. I now have all
> the basic stuff going, and have upgraded Postfix and Apache2 from
> www.backports.org successfully.
> 
Wow, you've got further in a week than I have in a year!
I do *intend* to get up to speed with backporting some extra
goodness into my antique Woody installation(s), but somehow
time just flows past. I spend too much time using the system
(*cough* Slashdot, *cough* eBay, email, website,...) and not
enough time on system administration. You have inspired me
to write RTFM in large letters at the top of my ToDo list :)


> For all the installs I have done so far the required .deb files have been in
> say, postfix/i386 on backport.org I have just added postfix to the
> backport.org sources.list and I have used apt-get install postfix to install
> them with no problems. But the kernel images are a few more levels down the
> directory structure. I am unsure how I should specify the path in the
> sources.list file? I have tried just using the path but that fails.
> 
Hmmm, I'm not quite sure how this works.


> For example...
> 
> If I add a backport.org sources.list entry for kernel-2.6 then apt-get
> update does not complain, ok so far.
> But "apt-get install
> kernel-image-2.6.2-1-386_2.6.2-0.backports.org.1_i386.deb" fails with file
> not found.
> Adding the "full" path to the sources.list entry does not seem to help.
>
> Current Sources.list file extract
> 
> deb http://www.uk.backports.org/debian stable postfix apache2
> deb-src http://www.uk.backports.org/debian stable postfix apache2
> deb http://www.uk.backports.org/debian stable kernel-image-2.6.2-i386
> 
Maybe you need the full package name instead of just 'kernel-2.6.2-i386'?
I'm just guessing here...



> I suppose the real question is.. How does apt-get use the sources.list
> entries to traverse/search directories?
>
I'm not entirely sure that you would traverse directories as
you say, but I don't really understand this at all. Maybe if
no-one else here knows, perhaps there is a forum/list at
www.backports.org? Or possibly join the debian-users list.
Beware though: it is high traffic - I got so dizzy after a
week, I had to get off.

Sorry I can't be much more help yet, but I have some time off
work so I shall bury my head in Fine Manuals and hopefully
become wiser...


Malc

P.S. Just for the record, how many other Debian users read HertsLUG?