Ah, the joy of package managers! Slacker, Kelly Black >From: John Hawley <jhawley at bgea.org> >Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >To: "tclug-list at mn-linux.org" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >Subject: [TCLUG:19594] apt-get errors >Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:48:24 +0000 > >Debian gurus: > >Wonder if I've corrupted one of my Debian installations somehow. > >On an 'apt-get dist-upgrade', or sometimes on an 'install' I get a lot >of http 404 errors. (I'm on 'frozen' release.) If I browse to the >site, I see that the package is there, but it has a different version >number. I don't grok the apt system, but it seems that something is out >of sync somehow. I've done all the apt-get stuff I can think of: >update, upgrade, check, clean, and nothing seems to work. > >I have another machine on which this one is based on that all this works >fine. A few days ago I accidently messed up my /var partition. I >restored it from a backup, but some of the file/dir permissions were >wierd, and there could possibly be files missing. This is the only >thing I can think of that may be connected to the current problems. > >Any fix? I suppose I'll bite the bullet pretty soon here and just >reinstall the system, since its possably corrupted. > >Here's an example of the apt-get problems (the --fix-missing tip at the >bottem didn't help): > >xi:/usr/src# apt-get install smbfs >Reading Package Lists... Done >Building Dependency Tree... Done >The following extra packages will be installed: > samba-common >The following NEW packages will be installed: > samba-common smbfs >0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded. > >Need to get 920kB of archives. After unpacking 4116kB will be used. >Do you want to continue? [Y/n] >Err http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main samba-common 2.0.7-2 > 404 Not Found >Err http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main smbfs 2.0.7-2 > 404 Not Found >Failed to fetch >http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/net/samba-common_2.0.7-2.deb > > 404 Not Found >Failed to fetch >http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/otherosfs/smbfs_2.0.7-2.deb > > 404 Not Found >E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing? >xi:/usr/src# > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org >For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org