Re: 'apt-get update' problems

[Arafangion <thestar@fussycoder.id.au>]

Arvind Marathe wrote:

>Hi all,
>I am new to linux and debian and recently installed debian-3.1 using DVD
>from a friend. But it seems a lot of libraries or dependencies are
>missing. I cannot open any molecular viewing packages like pymol and had
>problem installing other packages. Whenever I try to install these
>packages, I am asked to first do 'apt-get update'. But 'apt-get update'
>always gets stuck up as shown below.
>
>Could someone point out why the computer is not able to connect to
>security.debian.org? The internet is working perfectly fine otherwise.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Regards,
>Arvind
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>$apt-get update
>Err file: sarge/main Packages
>  File not found
>Ign file: sarge/main Release
>Err http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages
>  Could not connect to security.debian.org:80 (128.101.240.212),
>connection timed out [IP: 128.101.240.212 80]
>

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You are mixing stable and testing. Don't do that!
Use either stable (sarge), OR testing (etch).