Re: Problem with apt-get upgrade

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:09:50 +1100, Brian Poole wrote:

> I get many messages like:
> 
> Get:58 ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable/main grep 2.5.1.ds1-2 [161kB]
> Err ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable/main grep 2.5.1.ds1-2
>   Unable to fetch file, server said
> '/debian/pool/main/g/grep/grep_2.5.1.ds1-2_i386.deb: No such file or
> directory  '
> Get:59 ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable/main hostname 2.13 [9476B]
> Err ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable/main hostname 2.13
>   Unable to fetch file, server said
> '/debian/pool/main/h/hostname/hostname_2.13_i386.deb: No such file or
> directory  '
> Get:60 ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable/main zlib1g 1:1.2.1-3
> [61.2kB]
> Err ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable/main zlib1g 1:1.2.1-3
>   Unable to fetch file, server said
> '/debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.1-3_i386.deb: No such file or
> directory  '
> Get:61 ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable/main gsfonts 6.0-2.2 [1738kB]
> Err ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable/main gsfonts 6.0-2.2

You always start with 

apt-get update, don't you ?

If it prevails, wait. Patience. It needs some time for those files to
propagate to the mirror.