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Re: Is there a "Pseudo Mirror Kit"?



On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Olivier Delemar wrote:

> > apt-get install --reinstall --print-uris $ALLINSTALLED
> 
> 	Sounds nice, but:
> 
> # apt-get --print-uris --reinstall install xfree86-common
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, re-installation of xfree86-common is not possible, it cannot be downloaded

Huh? Make sure your sources.list is okay and you have apt-get update-d.

# apt-get --print-uris --reinstall install xfree86-common bsdgames-nonfree
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bsdgames-nonfree 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not
upgraded.
Need to get 396kB of archives. After unpacking 196kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
'ftp://130.161.157.155/debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/games/bsdgames-nonfree_2.8-1.deb'
bsdgames-nonfree_2.8-1_i386.deb 109300 f53a00646c86801699dc5e02b670c9ae
'ftp://pandora.debian.org/debian-security/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-i386/xfree86-common_3.3.6-11potato32_all.deb'
xfree86-common_3.3.6-11potato32_all.deb 286272
ae0366e2ccfd3b67604639eb4a937a55

(That box has xfree86-common installed, bsdgames-nonfree (still) not
installed.)

Oh, and it won't print the URI for things already in apt's download cache;
apt-get clean helps then.


Regards,
  Anne Bezemer



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