Re: using apt-utils

[Sebastian Luque <sluque@mun.ca>]

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:
>
>     <URL:http://www.tc.bham.ac.uk/~matt/emacs/apt-utils.el>

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