Re: problems with apt-get
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:11:01PM +0100, Rupert Heesom wrote:
> I'm new to Debian, trying to install a kernel image for amd64-k8-smp.
>
> I'm having problems when I try to do an "apt-get install
> kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp".
>
> I've had a look at the /etc/apt/sources.list file, and added a few
> sources but with no luck.
>
> My sources file looks like:
> #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
>
> #deb ftp://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64 testing main
> #deb-src ftp://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64 testing main
> #deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian testing main contrib
> #deb http://bach.hpc2n.umu.se/debian-amd64/debian testing main contrib
> #deb http://bytekeeper.as28747.net/debian-amd64/debian testing main
> contrib
> #deb ftp://mirror.switch.ch testing main contrib
> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian sarge main contrib
>
> One note: I thought I installed "sid", but the 3 top lines were the
> original lines in this file, and said "sarge" or "testing" (as they
> still do), so I guess I've installed sarge?
>
> The output of my apt-get install is:
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> rahdebian:/etc/apt# apt-get install \ kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.nl.debian.org sarge/main
> Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian-amd64_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.nl.debian.org
> sarge/contrib Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian-amd64_debian_dists_sarge_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> E: Couldn't find package kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> I've noticed that the "(/var/lib/apt/...) line above replaces "/" with
> "_". This looks like a problem (maybe the cause of my hassles?), but
> how on earth do the "_" get there??
>
>
> Is "Contents-amd64.gz" the source package list which the above error msg
> is referring to? If so, it can be found at :
>
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/dists/sarge/
>
> which is a different path from the one enabled in sources.list, so
> what's going on here??
Well it says 'you don't have /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian-amd64_debian_dists_sarge_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages'
Please run 'apt-get update' is what it suggests doing. If apt-get
update fails, then ou have broken entries in your sources.list have to
fix those first.
Len Sorensen
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