Resolved - How to add Shame's repo to Synaptic in Mepis?

I installed Mepis 7 on my C2D MacBook yesterday and, in general, things are going well.
I managed to get Compiz-Fusion working reasonably well following the guide in post #7 here.
I have the cube and wobbly windows and emerald themes. However, I can't write anything. So, to send this post I had to change the WM from Compiz to KWin. I imagine this is just a /etc/X11/xorg.conf problem that I'll look at later.
My biggest problem is that I'm unable to install ccsm and compizconfig-python.
In addition, however, being very new to Mepis, I'm unclear on exactly how to add a new repo to the repo list.
All the stuff I need is available in the Repository of Shame but I just can't get Synaptic to accept this. Well, it accepts it but complains about 404 errors and none of the stuff I want becomes available. But this cannot be true as I have no problem in directly accessing and downloading the stuff I want from the exact same site.
I feel I haven't quite got the hang of how repos are added to Synaptic in Mepis.
The repos I want to add are here. Perhaps somebody can tell me what precisely I need to put in the three sections in Synaptic (i.e. URL, Distribution, Sections).

BTW, I see fom here (post #10) that it is known that ccsm causes difficulties in Mepis. Has anybody resolved this recently?

[nlyric]

Hi paulfxh,
Have you tried adding it to your /etc/apt/sources.list instead of adding it in synaptic?

Edit: I noticed this in the link you provided

"In order for changes in CCSM to take effect immediately, compizconfig-backend-gconf must be installed and the gconf-backend must be used"

which might be a solution to a little issue I was having. I will check and see if it works tonight.thanks

Yes, this was the first place I tried to put this repo as that's what I'm used to but when I open Synaptic later I get this message:

E: Malformed line 22 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.

The offending line is:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-etch/desktopfx/ stable

Indeed, everything I tried to get this repo accepted by Synaptic has failed.

BTW, if you have ccsm in your system, how did you install it?

[nlyric]

Try backing "stable" up one space. And I can't remember if it needs the "/ ./" at the end. Guess there is only one way to find out. Try it

Well, had already tried every possible permutation as to how I could combine the word "stable/" and "./" after the url.
Sometimes get the error mentioned in my last post and sometimes this one:

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://download.tuxfamily.org stable/./ Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/download.tuxfamily.org_shames_debian-etch_desktopfx_stable_._Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)

In neither case does Synaptic manage to access the packages in this repo.
Puzzling.

So how did you get ccsm installed?

Edit: Just found that ccsm is INDEED present in Synaptic even without Shame's repo. However it's there as CompizConfig-Settings-Manager.
Mepis slowly starting to look a lot better.

[nlyric]

Well I really don't know at this point. Maybe post what you have in /etc/apt/sources.list . I am pretty sure I used the same repo but I am not at home right now to check. Maybe someone else can check.

[richb]

Maybe I can step in and help out. this is what I just copied from Shames

For the stable branch
To use this repository, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames...ktopfx/stable/ ./

[dsptech]

If you are still stuck take a look at my post here...
http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/sh...9&postcount=24

[loco]

http://shame.tuxfamily.org/repo/?cat=1

<wget key?>
ty/gl

[ko]

Originally Posted by paulfxh

Well, had already tried every possible permutation as to how I could combine the word "stable/" and "./" after the url.
Sometimes get the error mentioned in my last post and sometimes this one:

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://download.tuxfamily.org stable/./ Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/download.tuxfamily.org_shames_debian-etch_desktopfx_stable_._Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)

In neither case does Synaptic manage to access the packages in this repo.
Puzzling.

So how did you get ccsm installed?

Edit: Just found that ccsm is INDEED present in Synaptic even without Shame's repo. However it's there as CompizConfig-Settings-Manager.
Mepis slowly starting to look a lot better.

I have not used the Shame repos at all. Compiz is working OK here in M7.
I don't really use it that often. It's a gimmick to me, nice to show, but not really useful.

Regards, Ko