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echo: rberrypi
to: COMPUTER NERD KEV
from: PETE
date: 2019-07-09 19:49:00
subject: Re: Trouble using apt-get

In article ,
Computer Nerd Kev  wrote:
>Pete  wrote:
>> In article , Pete
> wrote:
>>>In article ,
>>>Computer Nerd Kev  wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm not a Raspbian user, but the first post includes reference to:
>>>>http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian
>>>>and browsing that in a web browser finds a "dists/wheezy" directory.
>>>>
>>>Thanks, but digging into that seems to show that it's only raspbian
>>>itself.  No other packages.
>
>The packages are in the "pool" directory. The package manager gets
>the package lists from within the "dists/wheezy" directory, then
>uses that to locate compatible packages within "pool/".

Mmm..  I don't think so.  I looked there too -- and everywhere else
I coukld think of -- and didn't see anything but core stuff.
>
> [....]
>> I just put that in both the above lines (not sure if I should have
>> changed the 'deb-src' line -- maybe they are still appropriate?),
>> and I was able to install my package.  (After remembering to also
>> do "apt-get update"!)
>
>Yes, put it in the deb-src part as well. [...]

Yeah, I was being silly.  As the deb-src line also contains "wheezy",
it must be specific.
>
Anyway, all good now.

Thanks,

 -- Pete --

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