Re: apt-get failing
On Oct 31, 4:00 pm, Andrew Sackville-West
<and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:17:24AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I am trying to install some new software as well as updating my
> > packages but apt-get install and apt-get update both fail. apt-get
> > update fails with:
>
> > Errhttp://security.debian.orgetch/updates Release.gpg
> > Temporary failure resolving âsecurity.debian.orgâ
> > Errhttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstable Release.gpg
> > Temporary failure resolving âpackages.dotdeb.orgâ
> > Errhttp://ftp.uk.debian.orgetch Release.gpg
> > Temporary failure resolving âftp.uk.debian.orgâ
> > Errhttp://download.webmin.comsarge Release.gpg
> > Temporary failure resolving âdownload.webmin.comâ
> > Failed to fetchhttp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg
> > Temporary failure resolving âftp.uk.debian.o
> > Failed to fetchhttp://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release.gpg
> > Temporary failure resolving âsecurity.deb
> > Failed to fetchhttp://download.webmin.com/download/repository/dists/sarge/Release.gpg
> > Temporary failure resolving comâ
> > Failed to fetchhttp://packages.dotdeb.org/dists/stable/Release.gpg
> > Temporary failure resolving âpackages.dotdeb.or
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > W: Couldn't stat source package listhttp://packages.dotdeb.org
> > stable/
> > all Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/packages.dotble_all_binary-
> > i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
> > ones used instead.
>
> > When I do a apt-get check, I get the following error:
>
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > W: Couldn't stat source package listhttp://packages.dotdeb.org
> > stable/
> > all Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/
> > packages.dotdeb.org_dists_stable_all_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2
> > No such file or directory)
> > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
>
> > My /apt/sources.list file is as follows:
>
> > debhttp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/etch main
> > deb-srchttp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/etch main
> > debhttp://security.debian.org/etch/updates main
> > deb-srchttp://security.debian.org/etch/updates main
> > debhttp://download.webmin.com/download/repositorysarge contrib
> > debhttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstable all
> > deb-srchttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstable all
>
> > I am able to ping external websites using both ip and name, The
>
> server
>
> great that you can ping external websites, but can you ping the debian
> servers? those are the ones that count here ;) Also there are some
> funky characters and missing characters in your apt output above. Is
> that transcription error? or something else?
>
> A
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Thanks very much for replying. Could not ping the debian servers! I've
entered the ip address for the debian sites in the hosts an voila!
However, those are funky characters above... they worried me as well
and am not sure how and why they appear like that.
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