From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using apt-utils Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:50:12 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <868yc7s5ff.fsf@slowfox.dyndns.org> References: <200408201559.i7KFx97k076549@salador.ucs.mun.ca> <200408201843.35395.sluque@mun.ca> <87ekm0q3b4.fsf@dugong.chemistry.nottingham.ac.uk> <200408211648.05754.sluque@mun.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093179049 22188 80.91.224.253 (22 Aug 2004 12:50:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 22 14:50:44 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 1Byro4-0006ib-00 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:50:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ByrsT-0003mZ-FX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ByrsL-0003mJ-P4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ByrsK-0003m6-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ByrsJ-0003m3-V6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Byrne-0002t5-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Byrnd-0003RO-00 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:50:17 +0200 Original-Received: from pd951fa03.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.81.250.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:50:17 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by pd951fa03.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:50:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951fa03.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kJtwRt6uSvzt60iWjg6/7wdTbGk= 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:20219 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20219 Sebastian Luque 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