Yes, apt-get is trying to install potato. The man page for sources.list
implies that I could just swap stable with woody. However, I've tried
that without success. Should I point to different ftp mirrors?
How did you get yours to work?
-Lars
1) error message:
# apt-get install apache
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package apache has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.no.debian.org woody/main
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.no.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-powerpc_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Package apache has no installation candidate
#
2) from man page source.list:
deb uri distribution [component1] [componenent2] [...]
3) excerpt from my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb ftp://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Did you install woody within the last month?
>
> If so, base-config actually installed potato packages. These are the
> kind of messages I was seeing.
>
> To get out of it if this is the problem, check to make sure you have
> woody in your sources.list, apt-get dist-upgrade, then try again.
>
>
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