RE: Problems with apt-get

["Steven Grunza" <sgrunza@ctdi.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harvey Kelly [mailto:harvey1506@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 1:17 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Problems with apt-get
> 
> On 27 February 2013 17:49, Claudius Hubig <debian_1302@chubig.net>
> wrote:
> > Steven Grunza wrote:
> >> Err http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/debian/ squeeze/main libpoppler5
> powerpc 0.12.4-1.2+squeeze1
> >>   404  Not found
> >> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or
> try with --fix-missing?
> >                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Did you try that? If so, what does your /etc/apt/sources.list
> contain?

I tried the update and --fix-missing suggestions before posting.



> 
> Also, after running 'apt-get update' try another mirror. Change:
> 
> deb http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/debian/
> 
> To:
> 
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
> 
> Run 'apt-get update' and see what's what.
> 

Running apt-get update now.  It's a little bit slower since I'm one
state away from udel.edu but there's an ocean between me and the UK.


Looks like slow and correct beats fast and broken.

"sudo apt-get install thunar evince" is now able to run to completion.


Thanks for the info.  I've been using Fedora/CentOS for a few years and
recently had to start using Ubuntu for work.  Since Ubuntu doesn't
really support PowerPC I'm considering suggesting we use Debian for a
new PowerPC-based product.

Solving these sort of setup issues quickly helps give me more confidence
in Debian as a good path for moving forward.