Re: apt run error
In foo.debian-deity, you wrote:
> I ran the apt method of dselect and got:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> libgtop-daemon
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> dictd doom-musserver sp libgtkxmhtml1 docbook-stylesheets sgml-data dict-wn
> jade dict lout dict-hitchcock jadetex docbook debiandoc-sgml sgmlspm psutils
> 37 packages upgraded, 16 newly installed, 1 to remove and 256 not upgraded.
> 8767774,56269186
> How odd.. The sizes didn't match, email apt@packages.debian.org
> Need to get 8768k of archives. After unpacking 26.4M will be used.
> E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp could not be found.
>
> This set up was working this morning.
>
> The only relevant thing to have changed is that on the last package
> update I ran (this morning) I installed gnome-apt.
>
> # dpkg -l | grep apt
> ii apt 0.3.0 Advanced front-end for dpkg
> ii gnome-apt 0.3 Gnome front-end to apt
> ii libapt-pkg-dev 0.3.0 Development files for APT's libapt-pkg
> ii libapt-pkg-doc 0.3.0 Documentation for APT development
apt 0.3.0 does not have an ftp method compiled in by default. There _is_
a reason for this (it dont work right). You basically have 3 choices:
1) Don't use ftp method in your /etc/apt/sources.list
2) Recompile apt with ftp support and beta test.
3) Downgrade to 0.1.9 and give up gnome-apt.
-Mitch
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