Hi, I decided to upgrade my slink box to potato tonight, using apt-get (0.3.10) for the first time, but I've gotten stuck:
My /etc/apt/sources.list consists of one line: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free I first ran "apt-get update", which seemed to work fine. Then, I ran "apt-get -f dist-upgrade", which is where things went awry: apt-get appeared to download a good number of packages successfully before coughing up 404 Not Found errors for dpkg-ftp, lilo, dhcpcd, gdb, info, man-db, libgpmg, gpm, dhcpcd, and nfs-server. Then, apt-get just quit, suggesting I try --fix-missing. So I believe I understand what the 404 errors mean -- the files that apt-get is trying to get simply don't exist -- but what I don't understand is if I'm doing something wrong that's causing these errors. Am I correct in assuming that the Packages list created by "apt-get update" is somehow out of sync with what's actually on http.us.debian.org? Or is there something else I'm missing? More to the point, what can I do to workaround this problem? Try another mirror? Thanks in advance, Michael