Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:12:41AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
> missing files and indeed if I ftp to the debian site the files are
> not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not
> there?
>
> I am running woody here and here is the relevant portion of the
> output.
>
> 321 packages upgraded, 18 newly installed, 4 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
> Need to get 8864kB/169MB of archives. After unpacking 9560kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main bsdutils 1:2.11g-4 [34.7kB]
> Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main bsdutils 1:2.11g-4
> Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/bsdutils_2.11g-4_i386.deb: No such file or directory. '
> Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main mount 2.11g-4 [97.1kB]
> Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main mount 2.11g-4
> Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/mount_2.11g-4_i386.deb: No such file or directory. '
[many more]
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
Your available packages database is out of date, it seems.
Run "dselect update select install" and see if it helps.
Cheers,
Joost
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