I am trying to get up the courage to update my debian etch system after a few months of neglecting to do so, but am dreading the thought of some mishap leaving the system unusable.
The system was installed back in April, and is on a Fujitsu P7120, and aptitude produces quite a long list of things it wants to delete and upgrade, so I want to be cautious about telling it to go ahead. The first thing that gives me cause for concern is that the output resulting from a 'apt-get update' does not look very clean: Get:1 http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch Release.gpg [378B] Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release Hit http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch Release Err http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release Get:3 http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release [5560B] Hit http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch/main Packages Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release Hit http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch/main Sources Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages Get:4 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources Fetched 5751B in 0s (7515B/s) Reading package lists... Done W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs: A70DAF536070D3A1 W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following signa tures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07 DC563D1F41B907 W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems Are any of these messages things that should concern me? Why the 'Err', 'Ign' and 'W:' messages? My sources.list looks like this: deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ etch main deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main The multimedia web site only mentions deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main for sources - nothing specifically for Etch. Is it safe/desireble to add that to my sources list? I have tried adding the PGP key for the multimedia packages as per the instructions on the web site, but get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 1F41B907 gpg: requesting key 1F41B907 from hkp server wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net gpg: keyserver timed out gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error One other thing that I am unsure about is that aptitude reports a number of packages being 'held back'. I havn't intentionally asked for this, could it have occured automatically or have I unintentionally done something when initially learning to use aptitude? Any advice or reassurance would be appreciated. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
