On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 18:07, Bill Best wrote: > >Change the above to: > > rpm http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386 freshrpms os > > Then do an apt-get update and try again ;) > > I did and bingo! So what's the diff between that URL and the one I was > previously using i.e. why is the package list different? It's actually the same url. Basically, sources.list works roughly as: <pkg format> <site> <directory> <archive> [<archive>...] You tell it what format files you are working in, the name of the server (& protocol..) that you are hitting, the directory on that server that the apt archive lives in, and then the name(s) of the archives you want. The more archives you list on that line, the more stuff is going to be available to you. On Debian, for example, I have: deb ftp://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib So, I'm pulling from a UK mirror of Debian, and I'm getting stuff out of the 'sid' directory (I don't know if I'm using the correct terms here - I suspect not - but at least this e-mail will be internally consistent :). I'm grabbing from the 'main' and 'contrib' archives - main is the area where most packages go, but occasionally I need one of the "unofficial" packages from contrib, so I add that in there too. I hope that makes some sense! > Anyway, gcc is now fixed - thanks - but have run into another problem which > I'll have to do some digging for. Have fun ;) Cheers, Alex.
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