[Wylug-help] Debian help needed

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 07 April 2008 13:43, Aaron Crane wrote:
> Anne Wilson writes:
> > On Sunday 06 April 2008 22:05, Smylers wrote:
> > > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and make sure it includes the repository
> > > URLs you were given.
> >
> > I deleted the two debian directories I had already added, then added
> > new ones from the mirror list that Jim pointed me to.  Unfortunately
> > that still left me with piles of 'Couldn't stat source package list'
> > messages.
>
> Once you've edited your /etc/apt/sources.list, you need to run
>
>   sudo apt-get update
>
> to make Apt refresh its ideas of what packages are available.
>
> (I can't see that mentioned in the suggestions you've been given so
> far, and the error message you quote makes it sound like that's the
> problem.  But apologies if you've already done that.)

Ah - no, I hadn't done that.  In fact I would have guessed that that would 
update software, so I wouldn't have thought of it myself anyway.

It seems unwise to keep those repos in my sources.list, since they can only be 
used very carefully.  I'll employ my usual experimental approach by saving a 
sources.list.debian and sources.list.basic so that I can easily swap between 
them.

Thanks for the info

Anne