backports
I need to install "checkinstall" for Linux Debian etch, from backports,
primarily on amd64 etch. To check viability, and modifying a recipe found for
"sarge", I unsuccessfully tried with i386 by:
(1) Adding this line to my /etc/apt/sources.list file
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free
(i.e., "etch" in place of "sarge")
(2) Adding the following lines to my /etc/apt/apt-file.conf
which should deactivate all packages from backports.org
Package: *
Pin: release a=etch-backports
Pin-Priority: 200
i.e."apt-file.conf" in place of "preferences" and "etch" in place of "sarge").
I planned to continue with:
(3) #apt-get -t etch-backports install checkinstall
(i.e., "etch" in place of "sarge"),
though, a check showed failure of (1) and (2) above:
apt-get update
ended with:
Failed to fetch http:/www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/Release.gpg
Unable to connect to http:
Failed to fetch
http:/www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Unable to connect to http:
Failed to fetch
http:/www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Unable to connect to http:
Failed to fetch
http:/www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Unable to connect to http:
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http: etch-backports/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/_www.backports.org_debian_dists_etch-backports_main_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http: etch-backports/contrib Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/_www.backports.org_debian_dists_etch-backports_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http: etch-backports/non-free Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/_www.backports.org_debian_dists_etch-backports_non-free_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
Commenting out "Pin-Priority: 200" in (2) above did not solve:
apt-get update
ended with:
Failed to fetch http:/www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/Release.gpg
Unable to connect to http:
Failed to fetch
http:/www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/main/binary-
i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to http:
Failed to fetch
http:/www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/contrib/bina
ry-i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to http:
Failed to fetch
http:/www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/non-free/bin
ary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to connect to http:
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
Thanks for indicating my mistake.
francesco pietra
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