> Ive used apt-get in the past, but not recently. > I maintain a local copy of the fedora2 archive, and do a > > genbasedir $TOP os updates > > after each update. > > my /etc/apt/sources.list file has the line > > rpm ftp://orion apt/fedora2/ updates > > in it, which was the only uncommented line in the past. > > So, Im missing something, as now I get the error message: > > [reg@orion apt]$ apt-get update > Fetching list of repositories/mirrors... > /var/state/apt/mirrors.list.new: Permission denied > E: Failed to fetch mirror list file: > > What is this trying to tell me? > I hate to answer my own questions, but... What its trying to tell me it that it is a silly program, and easily confused. The above data line in /etc/apt/sources SHOULD read rpm ftp://orion apt/fedora2 updates (sigh). The extra '/' at the end of the file-spec is what was causing the error message (and termination) -- Reg.Clemens reg@xxxxxxx
