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Fri Mar 14 08:04:04 PDT 2008

> Oh, you'll need to run 'aptitude update' after changing sources.list,
> and before installing.  Then aptitude should know it exists.
> -- 
Still no luck: here are the results:
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belmont:/home/alex# aptitude update
Ign http://www etch-backports Release.gpg
Ign http://www etch-backports Release                                  

Ign http://www etch-backports/main Packages                            

Ign http://www etch-backports/contrib Packages                         

Ign http://www etch-backports/non-free Packages                        

Err http://www etch-backports/main Packages                          
  404 Not Found
Err http://www etch-backports/contrib Packages                       
  404 Not Found
Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Err http://www etch-backports/non-free Packages                        

  404 Not Found
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [378B]                 

Get:3 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release [37.6kB]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release       
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Get:4 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages [246kB]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources      
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages
Get:5 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources [35.5kB]
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources
Fetched 319kB in 4s (76.5kB/s)                
Reading package lists... Done
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: 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 run apt-get update to correct these problems
belmont:/home/alex# 
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belmont:/home/alex# apt-get update
Ign http://www etch-backports Release.gpg
Ign http://www etch-backports Release                                  

Ign http://www etch-backports/main Packages                            

Ign http://www etch-backports/contrib Packages                         

Ign http://www etch-backports/non-free Packages                        

Err http://www etch-backports/main Packages                            

  404 Not Found
Err http://www etch-backports/contrib Packages                         

  404 Not Found
Err http://www etch-backports/non-free Packages                        

  404 Not Found
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [378B]                 

Get:2 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]       

Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release             
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources
Fetched 2B in 2s (1B/s)  
Failed to fetch
http://www/backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://www/backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://www/backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 404 Not Found
Reading package lists... Done
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 run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
belmont:/home/alex# 
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I must be close, frustratingly close, but as yet, no cigar! 

alex

a_kleider at yahoo.com

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