David Puryear wrote: > > Hi all, > > With deselect, I have the Access with ftp with right directory and all then I > pick update which download new packages files from dists/unstable/main, > non-free, and contrib like the way it should. But when I do Install I get this > messages: > Processing status file... > Processing Package files... > Couldn't find packages file for dists/unstable/main distribution (re-run > Update) > Couldn't find packages file for dists/unstable/contrib distribution (re-run > Update) > Couldn't find packages file for dists/unstable/non-free distribution (re-run > Update) > Constructing list of files to get... > Approximate total space required: 0k > Available space in /debian: 109334k > Nothing to get. > > I don't know why dselect is not see he packages file, which is in > /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/* with names Packages.dists_unstable_contrib, > Packages.dists_unstable_main, and Packages.dsts_unstble_non-free. I can't > figure out why this is happening since I have used same steps to update in > another machine without this problem. >
I got this problem as well when I upgrade from Debian 1.2 to 1.3. I overcame it by turning off the passive FTP tranfer mode when selecting the access method. Hope it works for you as well. ST -- +-----------------------------------------------+ | LUK ShunTim | | | | Civil and Structural Engineering Department | | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | | Kowloon | | Hong Kong | | | | http://www.cse.polyu.edu.hk/~stluk/ | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | phone: (852) 27666064 | | fax: (852) 23346389 | +-----------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .