From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Luque Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using apt-utils Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:48:05 -0500 Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200408211648.05754.sluque@mun.ca> References: <200408201559.i7KFx97k076549@salador.ucs.mun.ca> <200408201843.35395.sluque@mun.ca> <87ekm0q3b4.fsf@dugong.chemistry.nottingham.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093124904 10499 80.91.224.253 (21 Aug 2004 21:48:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 21:48:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 21 23:48:16 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bydih-0007da-00 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:48:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bydn5-0003t9-4D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:52:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bydmu-0003t4-6R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:52:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bydms-0003ss-L5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bydms-0003sp-J4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [142.161.130.102] (helo=mx-mtaout01.mts.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BydiP-0007K7-Rn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:47:58 -0400 Original-Received: from wnpgmb09dc1-92-175.dynamic.mts.net ([142.161.92.175]) by mx-mtaout01.mts.net with ESMTP id <20040821214750.GVWI4492.mx-mtaout01.mts.net@wnpgmb09dc1-92-175.dynamic.mts.net>; Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:47:50 -0500 Original-To: Matt Hodges User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 In-Reply-To: <87ekm0q3b4.fsf@dugong.chemistry.nottingham.ac.uk> Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20214 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20214 On Sat, 21 August 2004 03:54 -0500, Matt Hodges wrote: > With --no-site-file, you will have to load apt-utils.el by hand. I still got the same error though : ( > These are not benign in this context, and need to be discarded. Can > you test a fix for the version of apt-utils.el in testing which I've > posted at: > > Success! I loaded that version and it works OK (I only typed 'apt-utils-show-package' 'emacs', and got sensible output), both with a simple 'emacs', or with the two options you suggested previously. I'm very hesitant to modify my sources.list, so as to eliminate the "...couldn't stat source package list..." messages. I still need to learn much about apt to feel comfortable doing that. Any suggestions as to how to deal with this? Thank you very much for such a great tool. Sebastian