problem adding s/w source

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:

> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> I'm running 8.04 and am having a problem adding a software source,
>> namely ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/ubuntu/8.04.
>>
>> I tried entering this in the GUI third party s/w box and at first got a
>
> You are supposed to enter a line that has this kind of structure:
>
> deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

Following the link on the mondo site leads to a URL of the form

ftp://ftp.xxxxxxxx

which is one of the things I tried. Also deb ftp://ftp.xxxxxxx,
deb http://ftp.xxxxxx

I'm undoubtedly missing some basic that you're telling me. What I don't 
understand is why plugging in the URL verbatim isn't working. One other 
site that I have in the sources.list file is 
http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/hardy (note the difference in form) and it 
works perfectly.

>
> What you probably want to do is to download the apprpriate deb package.
> For example:
>
> ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/ubuntu/8.04/mondo_2.2.7_i386.deb

Already did that but I wanted the mondo site in my 
/etc/apt/sources.list.save file for future updates.

Thanks for the reply.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
A fair fight is the result of poor planning.