I am upgrading as follows: deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main non-free contrib
I tried to install firstly debconf and apt-options and got this: .... Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main binutils 2.11.92.0.10-3 404 Not Found Get:17 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main cpp 2:2.95.4-8 [3282B] Get:18 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main cpp-2.95 1:2.95.4-0.011006 [128kB] Get:19 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main g++ 2:2.95.4-8 [1186B] Get:20 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main g++-2.95 1:2.95.4-0.011006 [1028kB] Get:21 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main gcc 2:2.95.4-8 [3278B] Get:22 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main gcc-2.95 1:2.95.4-0.011006 [951kB] Get:23 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libstdc++2.10-dev 1:2.95.4-0.011006 [301kB] Get:24 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libc6-dev 2.2.4-5 [2352kB] Get:25 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main locales 2.2.4-5 [3337kB] Get:26 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main apt-utils 0.5.4 [173kB] Get:27 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libdb2-util 2:2.7.7.0-2 [107kB] Get:28 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libdps1 4.1.0-9 [156kB] Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libfreetype6 2.0.5-2 404 Not Found Get:29 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main xlib6g 4.1.0-9 [47.1kB] .... Then tried to install login and got this: cherry# apt-get install login Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: binutils cpp cpp-2.95 debconf dialog g++ g++-2.95 gcc gcc-2.95 libc6 libc6-dev libdb2 libdb2-util libdps1 libfreetype6 libgtk1.2 libncurses5 libperl5.6 libpopt0 libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libxaw6 libxaw7 locales perl perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-5.005-suid perl-base perl-modules perl-suid whiptail xbase-clients xfree86-common xlib6g xlibs The following packages will be REMOVED: xpm4g The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp-2.95 g++-2.95 gcc-2.95 libdps1 libfreetype6 libperl5.6 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libxaw6 libxaw7 perl perl-modules perl-suid xlibs 24 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 1 to remove and 299 not upgraded. Need to get 1569kB/21.6MB of archives. After unpacking 13.2MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main login 20000902-8 [110kB] Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main binutils 2.11.92.0.10-3 404 Not Found Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libfreetype6 2.0.5-2 404 Not Found Fetched 110kB in 2s (46.6kB/s) Failed to fetch http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/binutils/binutils_2.11.92.0.10-3_i386.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/freetype/libfreetype6_2.0.5-2_i386.deb 404 Not Found E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing? What solecism have I committed? If I wanted to make a CD first to mound with apt-cdrom. what would I make the root of the CD? Thanx -- Eric Smith