Ciao James, > >Hi guys, I have a new set of problems now I was trying to get samba usint >apt-get and got many different errors, so I thought I would buils it from >source but that reports no GCC. Can you advise. >Output from apt-get update below: > >/etc/apt/sources.list: 7 lines, 312 characters. >goliath:/Install# apt-get update >Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages >Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release >Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages >Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release >Err http://www.backports.org stable/all Packages > 404 Not Found >Ign http://www.backports.org stable/all Release >Get:1 http://www.backports.org stable/all Sources [64.7kB] >Get:2 http://www.backports.org stable/all Release [136B] >Fetched 64.9kB in 5s (11.7kB/s) >Failed to fetch >http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/all/binary-hppa/Packages.gz >404 Not Found >Reading Package Lists... Done >W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www.backports.org stable/all >Packages >(/var/lib/apt/lists/www.backports.org_debian_dists_stable_all_binary-hppa_Pa >ckages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) >W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems >E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones >used instead. > It means that the system couldn't reach http://www.backports.org stable/all... so it has no chances to get Packages from it. Comment this line in /etc/apt/sources.list and run again apt-get update. It will successfully get all the pkgs info. Thank you in advance
Regards steX
