On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 09:45:21AM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: > > I am trying to update my IPX to the current version of slink via > apt-get, but I am haivng a problem. Whenever I run 'apt-get update' it > connects to the remote server (either ftp.debian.org or http.debian.org) > but then gets stuck and never downloads any files or does anything else, > even after waiting for a long time. > After looking through the email archives for this list it appears > that this is a known bug in apt on sparc and that I need a newer version > of apt (and possibly libstdc++). I currently have apt 3.10 and libstdc++ > 2.9 on the system (current slink versions). > I do not want to upgrade to potato (the IPX is my web server, 1k > miles away, so I want to play it conservatively), but would like to get > apt working. Is there a binary of apt somewhere that does work on slink on > my IPX? And if so, where? Thanks. > > PS. I tried compiling apt 3.18 from source, but it failed. :(
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