> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:49:52AM -0500, Matt Ittigson wrote: > > Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I'm also looking for a > > solution to this problem and found only your original question when > > searching for the answer on Google. > > > > Perhaps if someone could answer it on-list, in this thread, it would > > become a great reference. > > > > Thanks in advance. Doubly sorry if the answer is RTFM and I just missed it. > > I'm not sure what you're asking here. Looking in the archive, it > looks like a question about why we don't have Contents files? > > We do have Contents since the move, so I have no idea what the > problem is. Just run: apt-file update, and then apt-file search > or list.
Not long after I wrote this message, I spent a little more time looking around the various mirrors and the problem was simply the mirror that I was using had no Contents_amd64.gz file. I'm now using: deb http://ftp.belnet.be/pub/mirror/debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/ sid main contrib non-free and that solved my problem. Thanks for the response. If anyone else has the problem, just search around the mirrors and check a couple until you find one with the Contents file. -matt
