From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: using apt-utils
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:50:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868yc7s5ff.fsf@slowfox.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200408211648.05754.sluque@mun.ca
Sebastian Luque <sluque@mun.ca> writes:
> 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?
You could try, from the shell, "apt-get update". If that tells you
that it couldn't contact certain servers, then I suggest to comment
out the lines from sources.list.
After all, how should apt download packages from an unreachable
server?
Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-22 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200408201559.i7KFx97k076549@salador.ucs.mun.ca>
2004-08-20 19:06 ` using apt-utils Sebastian Luque
2004-08-20 19:11 ` Sebastian Luque
[not found] ` <mailman.2123.1093029085.2011.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-08-20 21:45 ` Matt Hodges
2004-08-20 22:14 ` Sebastian Luque
[not found] ` <87n00pphvb.fsf@dugong.chemistry.nottingham.ac.uk>
2004-08-20 22:42 ` Sebastian Luque
2004-08-20 23:15 ` Matt Hodges
2004-08-20 23:43 ` Sebastian Luque
2004-08-21 8:54 ` Matt Hodges
2004-08-21 21:48 ` Sebastian Luque
2004-08-22 12:50 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
2004-08-23 10:08 ` Matt Hodges
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=868yc7s5ff.fsf@slowfox.dyndns.org \
--to=kai@emptydomain.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).