On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > 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.
At the time I got this email, dpkg at that site was 1.4.0.30. Maybe you got it during a mirror update. This error is coming from the remote server, and I pass it unchanged to apt-get. Adam
