-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 thanks. I'll give it a try. On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 12:53:05PM -0800, Shane Wegner wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 12:43:42PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > > hafve one problem: apt seems to have selected the stable distro as it's > > source of packages even though I told it to use testing during the > > install. I replaced stable with testing in /etc/apt/sources.list but now > > it can't find the packages on ftp. does anyone know hwo to change this > > and still have apt work? > > Probably a bug in sources.list. It should look something like this. > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > #deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free > > The deb-src lines aren't necessary unless you need apt-get > source to work. Otherwise, remember to apt-get update > before apt-get dist-upgrade. > > Hth, > Shane > > -- > Shane Wegner > http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVN8b9XVrM3ri110RAjuOAJ9jnFdEYIAOlXlRQV82Xhx9iXkFPACeI4BX Bvna+D3GuaYKt8+Lp8WwpHk= =1sF1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
