problem adding s/w source

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> 
>> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Strange, there is something i do not understand either, because both
>> according to my assumptions and to the site itself, it should have been:
>>
>> deb http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/ hardy/
> 
> You said "on the site itself". I'm not disputing you but I don't see 
> anything on the site that would indicate "deb" should be used. I 
> know that's the general form recommended. Could you clarify?

Difficult to miss, a bit down on the page http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/ 
you will find this:

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You can find compiled deb archives for feisty, gutsy and hardy here,
the patches are included.

By adding the line

   deb http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/ gutsy/
or
   deb http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/ hardy/

to your /etc/apt/sources.list you can install the latest version via the
synaptic package manager and will automatically be up to date with the
latest development.
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