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[Alex Kleider]

> 
> Ah, it is available in Debian Backports:
> 
> example sources.list entry:
> deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib
> non-free
> 
> Then:
> aptitude -t etch-backports install ntfs-3g
> 

Still no luck: here's what my terminal program spat out at me-

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belmont:/home/alex# aptitude -t etch-backports install ntfs-3g
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
Building tag database... Done    
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "ntfs-3g"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www etch-backports/main
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/www_backports.org_debian_dists_etch-backports_main_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www etch-backports/contrib
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/www_backports.org_debian_dists_etch-backports_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www etch-backports/non-free
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/www_backports.org_debian_dists_etch-backports_non-free_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing
files
belmont:/home/alex# 
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and just to be sure there isn't a misprint in my sources file:

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belmont:/home/alex# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# 
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386
NETINST Binary-1 20070211-21:21]/ etch contrib main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386
NETINST Binary-1 20070211-21:21]/ etch contrib main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb http://www/backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
belmont:/home/alex# 
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thanks for sticking with me on this...

alex


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