This is probably a problem with your firewall not letting trough anything to port 21. Try to use http in your sources.list (see [1] and [2]).
[1] man 5 sources.list [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html Regards, Jussi )\(@sS wrote: > hello everyone! > this is my first post here. > i just completed installing scratchbox on a debian machine. > i have an application written with qt3-3-4. now i need to compile it > in scratchbox in order to run it on an ARM pc (i have already made a > target and verified that hello world runs both in scratchbox emulator > and on the ARM pc). so i think i am set to get (with apt-get or > however else you might suggest) the qt related files, in order to get > qmake,uic,moc and other qt related tools inside scratchbox... > > so how do i do that? is there smth similar to aptitude ? or just > apt-get for scratchbox? is there another way? > > cause i already tried doing (taken from the install documentation > http://www.scratchbox.org/documentation/user/scratchbox-1.0/html/installdoc.html > > ) > > [sbox-MYTARGET: ~] > apt-get update > > but nothing gets downloaded. here is what i get > > > [sbox-MYTARGET: ~] > apt-get update > Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages > Err ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages > Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' > Get:2 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Release > Ign ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Release > Get:3 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Sources [1695kB] > Err ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Sources > Data socket timed out > Get:4 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Release [84B] > Err ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Release > Data socket timed out > Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-arm/Packages.gz > Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' > Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/Sources.gz > Data socket timed out > Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/Release Data > socket timed out > Reading Package Lists... Done > W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.debian.org > unstable/main Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-arm_Packages) > > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old > ones used instead. > > > note that my /etc/apt/sources.list file contains the following entries: > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main > deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main > > > then > [sbox-MYTARGET: ~] > sb-install-base-packages > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.debian.org > unstable/main Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-arm_Packages) > > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > E: Couldn't find package base-files > > any idea what is going on wrong here? > > also > any idea where can i find the names of qt packages so as to give the > right package name when i try to do apt-get install <some qt related > name> (when i manage to complete the above 2 commands)? > > thank you for your help > nass > _______________________________________________ > Scratchbox-users mailing list > Scratchbox-users@lists.scratchbox.org > http://lists.scratchbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scratchbox-users _______________________________________________ Scratchbox-users mailing list Scratchbox-users@lists.scratchbox.org http://lists.scratchbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scratchbox-users
