Unable to get repositories list - Debian
 

Hi

While updating packages information all added repositories seem to be active but much of it fail to download.

So I'm trying to manage repositories but for some reason I fail to get to the list of them both through synaptic and Terminal. Synaptic seems to try but doesn't open the box after a while, and the last one returns "bash: /etc/apt/sources.list: Permission denied" to "/etc/apt/sources.list" (as root, of course).

So I went to the folder, but there's almost nothing there. Just a .txt that goes:

### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
# deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

Do you think having added wheezy repositories to squeezy could be a cause? I got GIMP and Inkscape new versions from them, but I didn't install anything else.

I appreciate any help.
Best.

(very newbie, BTW)

/etc/apt/sources.list is not an executable file, this is why you get the "Permission denied" error. To look at the contents you can use The next time you update your system it will automatically upgrade the whole system to Wheezy, regardless which programs you have installed before. In general, mixing Stable and Testing is a very bad idea and is most likely a reason for a system that is not working correctly. For example, Gimp 2.8 needs upgrades in many libraries that are essential for many programs (like glib2). Installing Gimp from an activated Wheezy repository will also pull in those libraries and can break your system.

In short: Never mix repositories (especially not Stable with Testing or Unstable) if you do not exactly know what you are doing and which consequences this may have.
I would recommend to either try to do a full upgrade to Wheezy or to restore a backup from the time before you added the Wheezy repositories.

Yes, there they were all the repositories that I knew; so I'm trying the first option... upgrading to Wheezy. Hope it helps a normal use of Synaptic.

Thanks very much for your quick response and advice.

I finally recovered synaptic's functionality after upgrading. So it's solved. Thanks a lot.

M.

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Even nicer face! :)