Re: apt problems...
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> hello,
> i am fairly new to debian and even more to apt....
> i encountered already problems with dpkg/dselect that didn't want to install
> certain packages (gmp2... very annoying...)
>
> now i installed through .deb apt-0.1.6, went through the readme, made
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
>
> and the whole thing hangs now at :
> yoda:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get upgrade
> Updating package status cache...done
> Checking system integrity...ok
> The following packages have been kept back
> aalib1 php3-pgsql aalib-bin xv imlib1 apache whiptail doc++ omniorb fortify
> moonlight libhdf4g octave pdmenu wmaker ddd php3 xosview kbd doc-linux-text
> menu rpm
> 253 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
> 7 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 666k/116M of archives. After unpacking 22.3M will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> Get ftp://ftp.inka.de unstable/main dpkg [339k]
> Error ftp://ftp.inka.de unstable/main dpkg
> 550 /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.4.0.27.deb: not a
> plain
> file.
At the time I got this email, dpkg at that site was 1.4.0.30. Maybe you got
it during a mirror update.
This error is coming from the remote server, and I pass it unchanged to
apt-get.
Adam
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