Re: apt-get problem
Hi Ed,
Are you doing your downloads immediately after apt-get update?
In case you wait several hours (days) until you decide to download a
package, it might be that there is already a newer package avilable,
which causes the older one to be removed from the server.
So what you should do is:
apt-get update just before doing a major thing (like upgrade or
dist-upgrade)
or
trying to apt-get install your package, and if it fails, apt-get update
and then apt-get install again. This should work nearly every time.
Ed Falis wrote:
>
> For about a week now, whenever I try to get anything out of sid, I'm getting
> messages like:
>
> Failed to fetch
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xvt/xvt_2.1-13_i386.deb Unable to
> fetch file, server said '/debian/pool/main/x/xvt/xvt_2.1-13_i386.deb: No such
> file or directory '
>
> This is following an apt-get update, which appears to work correctly. Anyone
> have an idea as to whether this is something on my side vs the server?
>
> sources.list is:
>
> #Libranet
> deb http://libranetlinux.com updates/
>
> #Debian
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
> #deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
>
> #Debian Non-US
> deb http://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US main contrib non-free
> #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> #XFree 4.1
> # add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use this repository
> deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/$(ARCH)/
> # add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use this source repository
> deb-src http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/source/
>
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