Re: Dselect odd behaviour
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/ : and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and : now all the descriptions have disappeared. Also most of the packages : I don't have installed have gone. I've tryed updating again but to : no avail. Any hints on how to deal with this? Have you tried another mirror? Try editing your /etc/apt/source.list file and use ftp://ftp.debian.org, just to check. Occasionally mirrors don't get update correctly. I've gotten this before when using the canadian mirror. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -La Rochefocauld, Maxims 25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1B 9F F1 E0 E9 10 4C 16
Re[2]: Dselect odd behaviour
Dan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/ : and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and : now all the descriptions have disappeared. Also most of the packages : I don't have installed have gone. I've tryed updating again but to : no avail. Any hints on how to deal with this? Strange things happening here too. I am using the following sources.list: deb ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk:/mirrors/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free When I tried to install mutt, I got this: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package mutt has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, or that it is an obsolete package. E: Package mutt has no installation candidate Whatever package I try, I get the same response. If I access the hensa site manually via Netscape, all the packages are there and accessible. Any ideas? -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux (Potato)
Re: Re[2]: Dselect odd behaviour
Phillip Deackes wrote: Dan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/ : and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and : now all the descriptions have disappeared. Also most of the packages : I don't have installed have gone. I've tryed updating again but to : no avail. Any hints on how to deal with this? Strange things happening here too. I am using the following sources.list: deb ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk:/mirrors/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free When I tried to install mutt, I got this: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package mutt has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, or that it is an obsolete package. E: Package mutt has no installation candidate Whatever package I try, I get the same response. If I access the hensa site manually via Netscape, all the packages are there and accessible. Any ideas? I just checked the debian-devel list archives, and the problem seems to be that the Packages file which lists the package information is empty. See subject archive package file broken? e.g. at http://www.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/mhonarc-files/debian-devel-small/ Something had broken at the master archive and an empty Packages file was copied to all the mirror sites. As a result, the archive contents and list of archive contents do not match each other. Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux (Potato) // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
