hello, i am fairly new to debian and even more to apt.... i encountered already problems with dpkg/dselect that didn't want to install certain packages (gmp2... very annoying...)
now i installed through .deb apt-0.1.6, went through the readme, made apt-get update apt-get upgrade and the whole thing hangs now at : yoda:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following packages have been kept back aalib1 php3-pgsql aalib-bin xv imlib1 apache whiptail doc++ omniorb fortify moonlight libhdf4g octave pdmenu wmaker ddd php3 xosview kbd doc-linux-text menu rpm 253 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded. 7 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 666k/116M of archives. After unpacking 22.3M will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get ftp://ftp.inka.de unstable/main dpkg [339k] Error ftp://ftp.inka.de unstable/main dpkg 550 /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.4.0.27.deb: not a plain file. Get ftp://ftp.inka.de unstable/main dpkg-dev [327k] Error ftp://ftp.inka.de unstable/main dpkg-dev 550 /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/utils/dpkg-dev_1.4.0.27.deb: not a plain file. ERROR ftp://ftp.inka.de/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.4.0.2 7.deb 550 /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.4.0.27.deb: not a plai n file. ERROR ftp://ftp.inka.de/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/utils/dpkg-dev_1. 4.0.27.deb 550 /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/utils/dpkg-dev_1.4.0.27.deb: not a plain file. and i do not really know what to do with that.... the conf file is: # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb ftp://ftp.inka.de/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.inka.de/pub/mirror/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US so whats going wrong? and how do i correct it? BTW is the graphical frond end delivered with the distribution?if so how it is called? And since i am here... to upgrade to slink, i suppose i have to add in the conf file a line with the reference of a mirror. Do i have to do an upgrade after that (apt-get -f dist-upgrade), or does it be enough to install all packages from there? ~ ~ ciao bboett ============================================================== acount at earthling net http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett =============================================================== Unsolicited commercial email is NOT welcome at this email address To contact me replace acount by bboett in above addresses
