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Old 08-21-2008, 09:02 PM
Eric Gerlach
 
Default emacs not installable

Nishita Desai wrote:

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:

On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote:
How does your sources.list look?


sources.list:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib


You might need to add a mirror. I think with that sources.list you'd
only be able to install security updates.


Try adding a line like:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main

then run "aptitude update" and try it again.

Cheers,

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Old 08-21-2008, 09:05 PM
"Felipe Gallois"
 
Default emacs not installable

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 17:02, Eric Gerlach <egerlach@feds.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:





Nishita Desai wrote:


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:


On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote:

How does your sources.list look?




sources.list:



#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD

Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main



# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD

Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main



# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib




You might need to add a mirror. *I think with that sources.list you'd only be able to install security updates.



Try adding a line like:



deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main



then run "aptitude update" and try it again.



Cheers,*

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Federation of Students

University of Waterloo

p: (519) 888-4567 x36329

e: egerlach@feds.uwaterloo.ca





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yup, that's it. guess i overlooked that detail!
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Old 08-21-2008, 09:09 PM
"Nishita Desai"
 
Default emacs not installable

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Eric Gerlach
<egerlach@feds.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
> Try adding a line like:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main
>
> then run "aptitude update" and try it again.

That did it! Thanks a LOT.

Nishita


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