Re: Wheezy: "aptitude update" fails

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 19 May 2012 02:38:56 -0700, T Elcor wrote:

> --- On Sat, 5/19/12, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Weird... I'm also using wheezy and haven't experienced any problem
>> though
>> I use "apt-get update && apt-get -V dist-upgrade" to update the system.
>> 
>> Are you (or your ISP) behind some kind of proxy?
> 
> Not that I know of. Besides, I can access the following URLs from the
> browser without any problems:
>   http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/
>   http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/non-free/

Oh, of course the file is there and accesible via browser, but that tells 
you little because you are connected to a "dynamic" mirror, it redirects 
you to a different server every time:

sm01@stt008:~$ host ftp.us.debian.org
ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.61.240.89
ftp.us.debian.org has address 199.6.12.70
ftp.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225
ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.233.100
ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.236.52
ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.30.2.36
ftp.us.debian.org has IPv6 address 2610:148:1f10:3::89
ftp.us.debian.org has IPv6 address 2001:500:61:28::70

Okay, you can try with a different mirror. Edit your "sources.list" file 
and keep only this line (comment out "#" the rest):

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free

Then jump to a console and run:

apt-get update && apt-get -V dist-upgrade

And put here the output.
 
> It's beginning to look like an aptitude problem to me.

That would make sense if "apt-get" worked. If apt-get fails in the same 
way, you're stuck at the same "unknown" point :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón