Re: apt-get – problem configuring /etc/apt/sources.list
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:16:00 -0800, Vwaju (lou@manhattanhandyman.com) wrote:
>
> With a little help from my friends, I'm teaching myself networking by
> building an internet server. I am running Debian Linux 3.1 on a Dell
> Dimension 4100 desktop.
>
> I have installed ISPConfig, and I now I'm trying to install monit:
>
> # apt-get install monit
>
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> monit
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 228kB of archives.
> After unpacking 643kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/main monit 1:4.5-1 [228kB]
> Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/main monit 1:4.5-1
> Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' [IP:
> 35.9.37.225 21]
> Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/monit/monit_4.5-1_i386.deb
> Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' [IP:
> 35.9.37.225 21]
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
> --fix-missing?
>
> I tried the update and –-fix-missing options, which don't help.
>
> Here is /etc/apt/sources.list:
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
>
> deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main
> deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main
>
> #added by me 11/19/08
> #doesn't work!
> #deb http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ oldstable main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ oldstable/updates main
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> The man pages for apt-get and for sources.list are kind of hard to
> understand. I googled monit_4.5-1_i386.deb, and found it at:
> http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/monit
> /
>
> I tried to insert a line in sources.list, but it doesn't work (see
> line added 11/19/08, then commented out).
>
> What does the entry in sources.list needs to look like in order to
> download monit_4.5-1_i386.deb?
Oldstable/sarge is now too old and is not on the usual mirrors.
This is the line to put in your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
and then do an apt-get update.
Hope that helps.
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