debian sarge question

[Alex Snow]

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thanks.
I'll give it a try.
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 12:53:05PM -0800, Shane 
Wegner wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 12:43:42PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > hafve one problem: apt seems to have selected the stable distro as it's 
> > source of packages even though I told it to use testing during the 
> > install. I replaced stable with testing in /etc/apt/sources.list but now 
> > it can't find the packages on ftp. does anyone know hwo to change this 
> > and still have apt work?
> 
> Probably a bug in sources.list.  It should look something like this.
> deb     http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> #deb-src     http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb     http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb-src     http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> 
> The deb-src lines aren't necessary unless you need apt-get
> source to work.  Otherwise, remember to apt-get update
> before apt-get dist-upgrade.
> 
> Hth,
> Shane
> 
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