Re: Bug#25200: apt: more apt troubles
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: N/A
> Severity: important
>
> - bo system
> - I get apt from debian mirror and install with dpkg
> - I try to read /usr/doc/apt which is a bit bizarre since it's in some
> "text" format which gives me number at every end of line.
Eh? guide.text.gz seems perfectly well formed to me. Please be more
specific..
> - I try to do atp-get update
> - apt bails out because it can not access http://ftp1.us.debian.org. ftp1
> says "you are not allowed to access /debian"
Either ftp1 had a transient error or you are not giving the exact error
message. Judging by your comments you have an old version of APT that is
set to use frozen as a distribution, you will have to change the
sources.list to point to stable, not frozen.
Right now ftp1 works perfectly fine for me...
I have an informal list of http mirrors at
http://www.debian.org/~jgg/mastersourcelist.
> - of course apt bails out because it needs libmd5-perl_1.7-1.deb
> - so I go to my debian mirror and get it manually (I still don't understand
> what the idea of an automatical update procedure is if there are steps that
> have to be done manualy - what for?)
> - big surprise, libmd5-perl_1.7-1.deb needs libc6 which I don't have because
> I am not updated, which I can't do because the update program needs libc6 ->
> circular death.
> - I go to the mirror and try to get the old libmd5-perl_1. Big surprise,
> it's not there anymore because bo has been removed.
Get APT for bo 0.1.4 at http://www.debian.org/~jgg It's FTP method does
not require these perl modules and will run fine on your mirror with no
additional setup. I think it also has a more correct sources.list, though
it still may be a bit behind for non-us...
None of these issues are APT bugs persay so I am closing the bug report.
Where did you download this old version of apt from? I will see that it is
updated to the new version.
Thanks,
Jason
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