In foo.debian-deity, you wrote: > Hi > > Sorry for the bother. > > As closely as possible I followed the instructions at > http://www.debian.org/~hp/gnome-apt.html > > I added > deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt ./ > to my apt/sources file, updated, downloaded and installed. > > gnome-apt will start and I can view the installed files, but I can't > update: > > Update failed. > The following errors may help: > The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp could not be found. > > > I saw one other person with this note on the linux.debian.user group, > but saw no response. > > I also tried compiling the source from scratch, but that too failed to > produce the ftp object. In fact I manually descended to the ftp > directory and ran make, but encountered > > bash-2.01$ make > Compiling parsescript.cc to ../../obj/methods/ftp/parsescript.o > parsescript.cc:16: strutl.h: No such file or directory > make: *** [../../obj/methods/ftp/parsescript.o] Error 1
Apt 0.3.0 does not have a working ftp method yet. If you _have_ to use ftp, then you must downgrade apt to 0.1.10 and uninstall gnome-apt. If possible, just use an http url such as http://http.us.debian.org To fix your compile problem, just change the #include <strutl.h> to #include <apt-pkg/strutl.h> But I don't think it works even if you get it to compile. Others on the list may correct me on this. -Mitch
