I recently installed Knoppix 3.3 on my desktop
(2.4.22-xfs). I had no problem using apt-get
to grab the latest openoffice, python, xemacs,
etc. But after I retrieved some KDE development
tools, I'm no longer able to use apt-get.
When executing apt-get -f install:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libxcursor-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libxcursor-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 563 not upgraded.
10 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/27.3kB of archives.
After unpacking 135kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://people.debian.org
sid/i386/ Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7ebranden_packages_sid_i386_Packages)
-
stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://people.debian.org ./ Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7eblade_testing_._Packages) -
stat (2 No such file or directory)
(Reading database ... 119970 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libxcursor-dev (from .../libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb
( --unpack): trying to overwrite
`/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xcursor/Xcursor.h', which is also in package
xlibs-dev
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://people.debian.org
sid/i386/ Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7ebranden_packages_sid_i386_Packages)
-
stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://people.debian.org ./ Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7eblade_testing_._Packages) -
stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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So I attempted to run "apt-get update" to correct these problems,
but to no avail:
Err http://people.debian.org ./ Sources
Could not connect to people.debian.org:80 connection timed out
Err http://people.debian.org ./ Release
Could not connect to people.debian.org:80 connection timed out
Fetched 169kB in 16m2s (176B/s)
Failed to fetch
http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages/sid/i386/Packages.gz
Could not connect to people.debian.org:80 connection timed out
Failed to fetch
http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages/sid/i386/Release
Could not connect to people.debian.org:80 connection timed out
Failed to fetch
http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages/sid/source/Sources.gz
.
.
.
Reading Package Lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored,
or old ones used instead.
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My apt.conf:
APT::Default-Release "testing";
How can I fix the damage and return to using apt-get
for package installation?