On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:52:42AM -0500, Alex deVries wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > >You probably also get a message saying to run apt-get update, which is the > >solution to that problem. Those messages mean that you have certain > >sources > >specified in /etc/apt/sources.list, but haven't downloaded the lists of > >packages available from those sources (which is what apt-get update does). > > So I ran 'apt-get update', and that too gave me the same stream of > errors. What's next?
It almost certainly gave a different stream of errors, about failing to download the package lists, rather than not finding them. > >I'm not sure I understand the question. If you're asking how to install a > >.deb, you should use "dpkg --install". > > > >Did you build this package from source, or did you download it from testing > >or unstable? In the latter case, it is unlikely to install on woody, and > >needs to be recompiled. > > Let me rephrase: > > I couldn't find an s390-tools_1.2.4-1_s390.deb package out there > anywhere, so I created and built my own. I'm sure there are other > people who have had this problem too. Would anyone like this package? Probably; I would send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - mdz
