Re: 2nd try, what is my problem with apt-get?

["Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com>]

On Wed Feb 28 09:08:22 2001 Lewis, James M. wrote...
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>> 
>> I have a machine that I have upgraded from stable to testign, 
>> and installed the
>> 2.4.3 kernel with kernel package on.
>> 
>> 
>> Now apt-get is failing. See the error messages?
>> 
>> 
>> Script started on Tue Feb 27 04:42:29 2001
>> debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
>> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>> # deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main 
>> # deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/distributions/debian stable main
>> debian:~# runsocks aptget   -get update
>> 
>> 
>> 0% [Working]
>>             
>> Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
>>   Something wicked happend resolving 'http.us.debian.org/http'
>> 
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>Could you try using ftp instead?  I am using testing/unstable and I
>found that the http method doesn't always work anymore.  My error is
>different (could not connect to 0.0.0.80) but ftp works fine.  Try
>using "deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/...etc";.

	Thanks for the sugestion.

	Unfortunatley, I get the same "Something wicked happended" error when I
	try that.

	Any other sugestiosn?

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