Re: apt update problems
Charlie <ariestao@ipstarmail.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 23:13:51 +0100 Brian sent:
>> On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 08:46:12 +1100, Charlie wrote:
>>> W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/jessie/dists/main/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
>> Knowing what was in your sources.list would save having to guess what
>> you have done incorrectly.
> This is how it was, a single line in my /etc/apt/sources.list:
> deb http://http.debian.net/jessie main non-free contrib
> I think I read that that was the way it should be written, but as you
> say, obviously incorrect.
The correct line is:
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free
Your line is missing the "/debian " before "jessie". This is why apt-get
tries to download nonsensical URLs.
There are four parts to a line in sources list:
type URL suite/release components...
- Type is in most cases "deb" or "deb-src".
- URL is the base-URL for the mirror, in most cases
"http://hostname/debian";.
- suite/release is something like "stable" or "testing" or
"wheezy-backports" or "jessie"
- componentens then are "main", "contrib" etc.
Your line had the intended suite/release munged into the base-URL of the
mirror. Thus apt parsed "main" as your wanted release and "non-free" and
"contrib" as wanted componentens. This is of course incorrect and you
got your 404 during "apt-get update".
Grüße,
Sven.
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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
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