On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:04:40PM -0700, Virendra Rode wrote:
I'm trying to install mysql-server-4.1 on sarge (2.6.8-2-686), and I
keep getting following errors.
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Get:5 ftp://ftp.debian.org testing/main mysql-server-4.1 4.1.10-1 [14.5MB]
Err ftp://ftp.debian.org testing/main mysql-server-4.1 4.1.10-1
Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' [IP:
208.185.25.35 21]
Failed to fetch
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Why is it unable to fetch/open file?
When I manually try to download that file (with wget) I also get an
error. I think the problem is that your list of packages is
outdated. The current version for mysql-server4.1 is not the 4.1.10-1
that you are trying to download, but 4.1.11-1. So first update your
cache and then try again:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install mysql-server-4.1
My current sources.list points to:
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main
Please see if there is a mirror in your area that you can use
instead. It helps to keep the load off of the main debian server:
http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
On further digging I also found following locked files, see below. How
do you delete these lock files? Could this be interfering with apt-get
install?
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/mysql-server_4.0.23-7_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.10-1_i386.deb
I assume these are files that have been partially downloaded
already. I can't imagine that it would do any harm if these files
stayed there. I also can't imagine that it would do any harm if you
remove these files. I suggest you move these files to another
directory and put them back if anything goes wrong.
HTH,