deb http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:29:13 -0800 (PST)
Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 
> --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>
> > Subject: Re: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 9:00 PM
> > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:33:14 -0800 (PST)
> > Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Can anyone shed some light for me on why the above
> > > ubuntu mirror doesn't work. Yep, I googled on it
> > and
> > > find the link that shows all, main, restricted,
> > universe
> > > and multiverse with each containing files. I get error
> > > Err http://archive.ubuntu.com
> > hardy-proposed/multiverse Packages
> > >   404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
> > > on all, main, restricted, multivers and universe.
> > > Appreciate any insight on why this is not working or
> > if the
> > > url has changed its address and why I don't pick
> > that up googling.
> > > TIA,
> > > 
> > > Leonard Chatagnier
> > > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> > > 
> > 
> > Doesn't that need to be 'deb
> > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> > hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse' ?
> > 
> > Note the /ubuntu/
> > 
> >
> Thanks Charlie,
> Although I copied your mirror it didn't work due to line wrap I
> suppose but after fiddling with it for a while, I got the correct
> format down and now aptitude update works with no errors.  Had some
> multiple entries also due to using software sources which apparently
> just adds a new line and not overwrite an identical entry. I also got
> a few serious errors due to bad formatting which didn't show before:
> E: Malformed line 71 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (absolute
> dist) E: Couldn't read list of package sources Which I corrected by
> comparing and trial and error. It seems there were some ..../dist/...
> in the entries that was giving the error but were there before and
> did not give any errors while updating. In this case nothing would
> update because of the error. And I was beginning to think that I new
> all about fixing the sources.list=:)) Appreciate your help.
> 
> 
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 

You are welcome.

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