using local Ubuntu mirror

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:24:09PM +1030, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:23 am, Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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.
[...]
> > > 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.
> 
> Sadly, after that alteration:
> Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.filearena.net warty/main 
> Packages /var/lib/apt/lists/
> ftp.filearena.net_pub_ubuntu_dists_warty_main_binary-i386_Packages) - 
> stat (2 No such file or directory)
> 
> ie - it still doesn't work <sob>

Did you hit "Reload" after making those changes? That looks like a
symptom of not doing so.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]