[sf-lug] external usb hard drive

Tyler Trafford ttrafford at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 07:26:55 PDT 2008


Alex Kleider wrote:
> Tyler Trafford wrote:
> 
>> 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-
> 
> ********************************************************************
> belmont:/home/alex# aptitude -t etch-backports install ntfs-3g

> Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "ntfs-3g"

Oh, you'll need to run 'aptitude update' after changing sources.list,
and before installing.  Then aptitude should know it exists.
-- 
Tyler Trafford

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