using local Ubuntu mirror

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:10:41AM +1030, Brian Astill wrote:
> All the files I want are at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.filearena.net/pub/ubuntu-releases/
> ftp://ftp.filearena.net/pub/ubuntu/
> 
> but I can't get Synaptic to find them.
> Here are the (commented-out) lines in sources.list which simply don't 
> work.
> # deb ftp://ftp.filearena.net/pub/ubuntu/dists/ warty main restricted 
> universe multiverse
> # deb-src ftp://ftp.filearena.net/pub/ubuntu/dists/ warty main 
> restricted universe multiverse
> # deb ftp://ftp.filearena.net/pub/ubuntu/dists/ warty-security main 
> restricted
> # deb-src ftp://ftp.filearena.net/pub/ubuntu/dists/ warty-security main 
> restricted
> # deb ftp://ftp.filearena.net/pub/ubuntu-releases/dists/ warty main 
> restricted
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Drop the "dists/" and that should work fine. You probably also want to
drop the final line, if /pub/ubuntu-releases/ is a CD image mirror as I
suspect.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]