Re: Missing package on mirror

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:20:59PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
> I did: apt-get update from unstable, then:
> 
> apt-get install php4-pgsql
> 
> It gives:
> 
>   Reading Package Lists... Done
>   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>   The following packages will be upgraded
>     php4-pgsql
>   1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 554 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 38.3kB of archives.
>   After unpacking 4096B of additional disk space will be used.
>   Get:1 ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au unstable/main php4-pgsql 3:4.3.3-1 [38.3kB]
>   Err ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au unstable/main php4-pgsql 3:4.3.3-1
>     Unable to fetch file, server said 
>     '/pub/linux/debian/pool/main/p/php4-pgsql/php4-pgsql_4.3.3-1_i386.deb: 
>     No such file or directory.  '
>   Failed to fetch 
>   ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/debian/pool/main/p/php4-pgsql/php4-pgsql_4.3.3-1_i386.deb  Unable to fetch file, server said 
> '/pub/linux/debian/pool/main/p/php4-pgsql/php4-pgsql_4.3.3-1_i386.deb: No 
> such file or directory.  '
>   E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with 
>   --fix-missing?
> 
> Looking in the mirror directory, there is no php4-pgsql_4.3.3-1_i386.deb.
> I tried another mirror too. I downloaded the latest package there and
> installed it with dpkg -i. However, whenever i run apt-get, it tries to
> install it and gives the same error.

It looks like ftp.monash.edu.au either isn't updating properly, or isn't
carrying unstable, or similar ... I'd try switching sources.list to
another mirror.

You could also contact mirrors@debian.org with the problem.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]