Anybody know apt-get ?

Ronald F. Guilmette rfg at tristatelogic.com
Sun Nov 7 10:51:54 UTC 2010



I need to get sources for the Linux version of certain programs that
reside in a package called "bsdutils".  I have built and installed
the "apt-get" program and now I'm just trying to use it, and things
are going very badly indeed.

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?  The errors I am
getting are shown below, and here are the current contents of my
/usr/local/etc/apt/sources.list file:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted contrib non-free

# Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted contrib non-free
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


Here's what happens when I try to fetch the sources:


% apt-get source bsdutils
Reading package lists... 0%Reading package lists... 100%Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_restricted_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/contrib Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_contrib_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/non-free Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_non-free_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Could not open file /var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_source_Sources - open (2 No such file or directory)


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