Ubuntu 10.10 / package problem

[sleipner]

I've added Telldus to my repository, but I am getting an error message when trying to use it.

W:Failed to fetch http://download.telldus.com/debian/dists/stable/Release Unable to find expected entry main/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

Any hints what's wrong?

[Jaxån]

It might help if you tell us what changes you have done and what commands you give.
Not just the error message.

So, how does /etc/apt/sources.list looks like (or did you put a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list instead? That would be better)?

What commands (GUI or CLI) did you execute?

[sleipner]

I've exactly done as stated on your Homepage (http://developer.telldus.se/wiki/TellSt ... tionUbuntu), though some minor modifications were necessary as the menus are a little bit different now.

I did everything GUI-based, and didn't enter any command line inputs.

- downloaded the public key
- imported the key file
- added the repository
- as there was a problem when downloading the packages, I couldn't process to the last step (synaptic)

Here are the last lines of /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://download.telldus.com/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://download.telldus.com/debian/ stable main
deb http://download.telldus.com/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://download.telldus.com/debian/ unstable main

[sleipner]

I're really no Linux expert, but I just compared the directories on the Telldus server with the one from ubuntu.

There binary amd64 and i386 are similar, but the source folder is missing on the Telldus server. I think that's the one Ubuntu is complaining about.

P.S.: I've also filed a service request on that issue, hope you don't mind.

[micke.prag]

Remove the deb-src line from sources.list. We will add the source-packages in the next release.

[sleipner]

I've been able to add the unstable release to the software repository list, and were able to install the telldus-core package.

[micke.prag]

If you are not a Linux expert and want stable software, do not use the unstable repository.
It is unstable, might break your configuration at any time and is unsupported!