Christian Seberino wrote: > Now I'm stuck because lots of packages did not get installed > successfully (lots of '404' error messages during download) > and I don't know the NAMES of packages in order > to be able to apt-get them myself!!!!
We were having a discussion about something ver similar . . . The Debian Way is to use aptitude instead of apt-get directly. Since you learned to use ``apt-get install <package>'' just replace apt-get with aptitude and it will work the same: ``aptitude install <package>'' That said, did you run an ``aptitude update'' first? What release are you using? Stable(sarge), Testing(etch), or Unstable(sid)? If you are using Stable(sarge) then I am surprised by the 404's. Otherwise, I would guess that it has been awhile since your last update of the apt database. > I wonder if my firewall is the reason for the trouble. Anyone > know what ports needs to be open for apt-get to download packages? Depends. Do your deb lines in sources.list have http:// or ftp://? if http://, then the firewall needs to be able to access a remote port 80. If ftp, I am not sure if apt uses active or passive ftp. I suspect passive, but I am not certain. Basically, if http:// or ftp:// urls work in your browser, then they will work for apt. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
