According to Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > gnome-apt requires apt ver. 0.3, which does not (yet) support the ftp > method. Your options are to use the http method or to downgrade to an > older version of apt. The http method works very well and the number of > sites which support it is increasing. Thanks for the hint. You are right, substituting ftp by http worked...almost. There seems to be a problem with the non-US part. Here is what I get to see:
~# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org dists/proposed-updates/ Packages [313] Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org dists/proposed-updates/ Release [153] Hit http://www.debian.org ./ Packages Hit http://www.debian.org ./ Release Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/main Packages [490k] Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/main Release [93] Get:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-free Packages [70.3k] Get:6 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-free Release [97] Get:7 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-US Packages [9101] Err http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-US Release 404 Not Found Get:8 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/contrib Packages [23.3k] Get:9 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/contrib Release [96] Fetched 594k in 2m14s (4404/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done And here is the contents of my sources.list: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian slink main non-free non-US contrib deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt ./ Why does the http method need the "Release" file? And why is the one for the non-US part missing? Should I file a bug report? Thanks again, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~