im following the guide for the perfect setup debian etch but when i get to apt-get update i get errors. warning - im a bit of a noob. i can ping the server so network is up... im guessing my problem is with how im writing the sources.list file --- please help!! during the install process apt configuration stopped at 40%, i found another reference to this on the net which suggested disabling network adapter (i plugged it out) and the installtaion continued. my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this # deb cdrom:[ not going to type] # deb cdrom:[ not going to type] #deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/ debian/ deb http://security.debian.org/ ~ deb-src http://security.debian.org/ ~ this however gives the error apt-get install ssh openssh-server reading package list... done building dependency tree... done package ssh is not available, but is reffered to by another package this may mean the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source however the following packages replace it openssh-client openssh-server E: package ssh has no installation candidate if i uncomment the line deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/ debian/ i get this error same as above but with W: couldnt stat source package list http://ftp.de.debian.org/ debian/packages (/var/lib/opt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_packages) - stat (2 no such file or directory) at this point it also suggests running apt-get update but that gives this error err http://ftp.de.debian.org/ debian/packages 404 not found
Your /etc/apt/sources.list should look like this: Code: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
im embarrased. thank you so much for answering that post, if i had looked closer i would not have had a problem. Thank you for your patience
