Re: solved with minor glitch: Re: aptitude refuses to install gcc and a few other things
Well, I'm no expert, but I guess sometimes the mirrors moves stuff around or they just "die off", and hence /etc/apt/sources.list gets outdated. It usually happens on some of our older systems which have not been "apt-get update"-ed in quite a while.
Someone else can probably give you a more accurate answer though :)
//didde.
On Sep 01, 2004, at 19:18, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:31:35PM +0200, Didde Brockman wrote:
Try running "apt-get update" to make sure your sources for apt are up
to date, then retry your install. That usually solves the problems I
get which look similar to yours :)
//didde.
On Sep 01, 2004, at 18:22, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I'm running denian-sarge.
When I try to install gcc using aptitude, I get the following lament:
ftp://mirror.direct.ca testing/main gcc-3.31:3.3.4 [ERROR]
Unable to fetch file, server said
'/pub/linux/debian/pool/main//g/gcc-3.3/gcc-3.
I get similar messages for several other files, such as cpp-3.3
gcc-3.3 libgcj-common, mpeglib (I asked for a few other packages,
too).
Is there a problem with gcc and friends?
Or with the mirror?
Or (most likely) have I done something wrong?
-- hendrik
Well, that worked! I did it with the 'u - update' command in aptitude.
What was the problem -- that the package list or some such had not
been updated?
The only trouble it gave me was an attempt to uninstall lots and lots
of KDE-related packages because they were no longer needed.
Could it be that the kde metapackage disappeared?
-- hendrik
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