I keep getting the following errors or warnings ("W") when I run apt-get. It says I should do
apt-get update, but I've done that with no change. I went to the point of removing all of the deb-source entries in my
sources.list file. Still it gives me grief.
Code:
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
One piece of info that may give someone some indication of how I got here:
I have just installed Sarge (Debian 3.1r0) on my file server and was attempting to do a
apt-get dist-upgrade when I started getting a number of other messages indicating that some packages were unable to be reached. So I came to LQ and searched. Under the advice of a couple of people (I'd have to search them out and post links to their posts, blah, blah) I added a number of lines to my sources.list file. Then, per one individual's advice, I went through and put all of my source listings (except security, of course) to
unstable and did another
apt-get dist-upgrade. Seems like it just hasn't been right since then.
I have no idea what all was upgraded with the dist-upgrade command. Do I need to start over and ignore the advice of well-meaning geeks who give advice that I am not ready to utilize?
Help...
