Re: using apt-utils

[Kai Grossjohann]

Sebastian Luque <sluque@mun.ca> writes:

> I'm very hesitant to modify my sources.list, so as to eliminate the 
> "...couldn't stat source package list..." messages. I still need to learn 
> much about apt to feel comfortable doing that. Any suggestions as to how to 
> deal with this?

You could try, from the shell, "apt-get update".  If that tells you
that it couldn't contact certain servers, then I suggest to comment
out the lines from sources.list.

After all, how should apt download packages from an unreachable
server?

Kai