Phillip Deackes wrote: > Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > : I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/ > > : and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and > > : now all the descriptions have disappeared. Also most of the packages > > : I don't have installed have gone. I've tryed updating again but to > > : no avail. Any hints on how to deal with this? > > Strange things happening here too. I am using the following > sources.list: > > deb ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk:/mirrors/debian unstable main contrib > non-free > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib > non-free > > When I tried to install mutt, I got this: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Package mutt has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, or that it is an obsolete package. > E: Package mutt has no installation candidate > > Whatever package I try, I get the same response. If I access the hensa > site manually via Netscape, all the packages are there and accessible. > > Any ideas?
I just checked the debian-devel list archives, and the problem seems to be that the Packages file which lists the package information is empty. See subject "archive package file broken?" e.g. at http://www.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/mhonarc-files/debian-devel-small/ Something had broken at the master archive and an empty Packages file was copied to all the mirror sites. As a result, the archive contents and list of archive contents do not match each other. > Phillip Deackes > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian Linux (Potato) // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
