Package: apt Version: 0.3.19 After installing apt_0.3.19_i386.deb and dpkg_1_6_13_i386.deb (static versions) on a 2.0 debian machine and setting the source.list to
deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free and running apt-get update i get the following output. trotski:~# apt-get update Err ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org' Err ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org' Err ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org' Err ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main Packages ...ETC ETC... Could not resolve 'ftp.nl.debian.org' Err ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/non-free Release Could not resolve 'ftp.nl.debian.org' Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages Could not resolve 'ftp.nl.debian.org' ...ETC ETC... Failed to fetch ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/non-free/binary-i386/Release Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org' Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) ...ETC ETC... W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. trotski:~# It seems that resolving the hostnames to ip addresses does not work. When I substitute the ip addresses in the sources.list file the whole stuff works like it should. trotski:/etc# cat debian_version 2.0 trotski:/etc# cat hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 trotski.koornbeurs.net trotski trotski:/etc# cat resolv.conf nameserver 127.0.0.1 search koornbeurs.net #nameserver 130.161.180.1 trotski:/etc# uname -a Linux trotski 2.0.35 #11 Fri Nov 19 12:40:11 CET 1999 i386 unknown trotski:/etc# ls -l /lib/libc.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 28 1998 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.0.7.so trotski:/etc# This might all be because of a misconfigured nameserver, but it seems strange anyway. -- arthur - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://ch.twi.tudelft.nl/~arthur --
