RE: apt-get update failing

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>]

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 Dean.Carpenter@pharma.com wrote:

> Yup.  I've removed the Packages.gz files and had mirror reget them several
> times.  I also tried right from the ftp site ...

Are you -sure- you have the right version?

va{root}/usr/debian/home/jgg#cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian frozen main  contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/
va{root}/usr/debian/home/jgg#apt-get update
Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages
Get http://non-us.debian.org unstable/binary-i386/ Packages
Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org frozen/main Packages                           
Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org frozen/non-free Packages                       
Fetched 594k in 2s (257k/s)                          
Updating package file cache...done
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
va{root}/usr/debian/home/jgg#apt-get | head --lines=1
apt 0.1.9 for i386 compiled on Nov  5 1998  17:50:04

va{root}/usr/debian/home/jgg#md5sum /var/state/apt/lists/*
67acada608ee6c428cd757a2056c4626
/var/state/apt/lists/ftp1.us.debian.org_debian_dists_frozen_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
8a924add52d804ad2efa855e5a090c28
/var/state/apt/lists/ftp1.us.debian.org_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packages
c72a3c8be6caf7b303c1452cdb41c8ae
/var/state/apt/lists/ftp1.us.debian.org_debian_dists_frozen_non-free_binary-i386_Packages
ce7259fbe64a3d14c57e78c4c5987c0b
/var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_unstable_binary-i386_Packages

Jason