Re: apt-get newbie question
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 michael@yoon.org wrote:
> I decided to upgrade my slink box to potato tonight, using apt-get
> (0.3.10) for the first time, but I've gotten stuck:
>
> My /etc/apt/sources.list consists of one line:
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
>
> I first ran "apt-get update", which seemed to work fine.
>
> Then, I ran "apt-get -f dist-upgrade", which is where things went
> awry: apt-get appeared to download a good number of packages
> successfully before coughing up 404 Not Found errors for dpkg-ftp,
> lilo, dhcpcd, gdb, info, man-db, libgpmg, gpm, dhcpcd, and
> nfs-server. Then, apt-get just quit, suggesting I try --fix-missing.
>
> So I believe I understand what the 404 errors mean -- the files that
> apt-get is trying to get simply don't exist -- but what I don't
> understand is if I'm doing something wrong that's causing these
> errors.
Yep, standard HTTP 404 error.
> Am I correct in assuming that the Packages list created by "apt-get
> update" is somehow out of sync with what's actually on
> http.us.debian.org? Or is there something else I'm missing? More to
> the point, what can I do to workaround this problem? Try another
> mirror?
Just rerun apt-get. The problem is that one of the http.us.debian.org
mirrors (i forget which one offhand) (http.us.debian.org resolves to about
5 different mirrors) has the directory structure different from the
others. Specifically, on all the other mirrors it's
/debian/dists/unstable/..., and on this one it's sometimes
/dists/unstable/....
Good luck getting potato upgraded successfully. And watch out, especially
with the lilo breakage (i don't know if the fix has made it to the mirrors
yet) and the main/Packages file breakage.
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