Re: [pygame] apt-get install pygame

[Joost Yervante Damad <j.damad@qahwah.net>]

'Pete Shinners' wrote about '[pygame] apt-get install pygame' - Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 09:04:56PM CEST
> ok, i've setup our own little unofficial pygame repository.
> unfortunately the redhat server didn't have the tools needed
> to build the stuff automatically, so i created the files by
> hand (hopefully no errant letters will kill apt-get?)
> 
> anyways, to add pygame into your packages list, put the
> following lines into your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
> 
> deb http:/www.pygame.org/ftp/debian/ ./
> deb-src http:/www.pygame.org/ftp/debian/ ./
> 
> 
> i'm not sure if the source stuff will really work, but i
> have high hopes for the i386 binary stuff. after adding 
> these lines i believe the commands are
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get install pygame
> 
> any debian users able to try this out? if it works i'm
> real happy! if not, hopefully it's just a quick fix
> 

It works for me, although apt complains a little:

Failed to fetch http://www.pygame.org/ftp/debian/./Release  rename failed, No such file or directory (/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/www.pygame.org_ftp_debian_._Release -> /var/lib/apt/lists/www.pygame.org_ftp_debian_._Release). 

Source fails:

rhudaur:~# apt-get source pygame
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 657kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://www.pygame.org ./ pygame 1.1-1 (diff) [3443B]
Get:2 http://www.pygame.org ./ pygame 1.1-1 (dsc) [703B]
Err http://www.pygame.org ./ pygame 1.1-1 (tar)
  404 Not Found
  Fetched 4146B in 0s (7796B/s)
  Failed to fetch http://www.pygame.org/ftp/debian/./pygame_1.1.orig.tar.gz  404 Not Found
  E: Failed to fetch some archives.

Joost
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