Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect
On Wednesday 17 February, John Stevenson wrote:
> However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error
> message below.
>
> Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation?
> Any clues ??
I'd say that it's a problem with the mirror, as if you login to the site
and try and file the file that it's failing on, it doesn't appear to be
there.
> Get ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http [13.0k]
> Error ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http
> 550
> /pub/linux/distributions/Debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/dpkg-http_0.
> 19.deb:
> not a plain file.
You could try pointing apt at another mirror and seeing if that works.
--
Graham
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