apt-get for a package with when "contrib/source/Sources" is not found correctly
- by Stuart Woodward
I tried to install Webmin on Ubuntu by following the instructions on http://www.webmin.com/deb.html. Using the Update Manager GUI I added the repositories and the key
deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib
deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge contrib
However when I do an:
apt-get update
apt-get install webmin
I get the error:
W: Failed to fetch http://download.webmin.com/download/repository/dists/sarge/Release Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
W: Failed to fetch http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository/dists/sarge/Release Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
Looing at the page at the URL I can see:
7029066c27ac6f5ef18d660d5741979a 20 contrib/source/Sources.gz
Is the error caused by the fact that the Sources are compressed with gzip or am I doing something wrong?