Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
be out of date?

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:

> 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 Your available packages database is out of date, it seems.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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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com