Fwd: Re: apt-get upgrade question
--- Charles Baker <rascharles@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:07:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Charles Baker <rascharles@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: apt-get upgrade question
> To: Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com>
>
>
> --- Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 07:43:11 -0700 (PDT)
> > Charles Baker <rascharles@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > --- Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > > > Having recently installed 3.0, I decided to
> > stick
> > > > with testing and did
> > > > apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade
> > > >
> > > > This produced quite a lot of errors of the
> > type:-
> > > >
> > > > Get:13 ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk testing/main
> > > > xfree86-common 4.1.0-17 [547kB]
> > > >
> > > > Err ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk testing/main
> > xfree86-common
> > > > 4.1.0-17
> > > >
> > > > Unable to fetch file, server said
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
'/pub/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/xfree86-common_4.1.0-17_all.deb:
> > > > No such
> > > > file or directory. '
> > > >
> > > > My question is: have I done something wrong?
> If
> > not,
> > > > what is the correct
> > > > procedure now, given the error messages?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > 3.0 is not testing but stable. If you want to
> move
> > to
> > > testing, you'll want to edit your
> > > /etc/apt/sources.list to point to testing, then
> do
> > > ``apt-get update'' followed by ``apt-get -u
> > > dist-upgrade'' .
> >
> > I did have testing in my sources, and I still get
> > loads of "no such file"
> > errors
> >
> > - Richard
>
>
> You might try switching mirrors. Perhaps, the one
> you
> hit is not fully synched yet.
<<SNIP>>
Forgot to include list sorry!
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