Re: [TCLUG:19594] apt-get errors

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

either you havn't run apt-get update recently enough, or the debian guys
are goofin around with packages.. it happens.. just wait a few hours, and
try it again

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, John Hawley wrote:

> 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#
> 
> 
> 
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