Re: apt-get won't play
just a FYI, about a week or 2 ago, the stable branch changed to 2.2 so
you were actually trying to go from 2.0 - 2.2.
nate
Nick Cook wrote:
FWIW, I fixed my apt-get problem by following the old adage: when in
doubt, blow it out.
I purged apt from my system, manually ftp'ed (if that's a verb!) apt from
the slink/admin directory, and re-installed via dpkg.
Apt-get now goes online, gets the potato stable lists with no problem, and
starts the upgrade process ('tho I didn't continue 'cause the time
estimate was 19 hours!).
- Nick
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Re: apt-get won't play
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:27:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. Apt-get, which worked so well when I went from 2.0 - 2.1, is being a royal grade A bastard (pardon my French!) now. Maybe I'm missing something obvious: - The sources file is set up for deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib - I run apt-get update - apt-get update complains it can't resolve the above address, complains it can't run a stats on the earlier packages on the system, then suggests I run apt-get update! I had the same problem because I thought that I needed to upgrade my apt to the statically linked package mentioned in the upgrade notes. But that is only if you are upgrading via a CD set. If you are going over the net, you need to use the latest apt (v0.3.10) in slink, or it will not properly resolve names. The 0.3.19 will not work in slink for a net upgrade. --Jay Barbee
Re: apt-get won't play
Subject: apt-get won't play Date: Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:27:11PM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): WARNING: Please push yourself back from the monitor for one second. AAH! Thank you. Apt-get, which worked so well when I went from 2.0 - 2.1, is being a royal grade A bastard (pardon my French!) now. Maybe I'm missing something obvious: - The sources file is set up for deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib - I run apt-get update - apt-get update complains it can't resolve the above address, complains it can't run a stats on the earlier packages on the system, then suggests I run apt-get update! Don't know if this is your problem or not but in my slink sources.list, I have deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib ^^ and in my potato box deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib ^^ They both work fine. Might be a link problem due the recent unstable to stable change(?). :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) -- As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. -- Weisert ___
Re: apt-get won't play
FWIW, I fixed my apt-get problem by following the old adage: when in
doubt, blow it out.
I purged apt from my system, manually ftp'ed (if that's a verb!) apt from
the slink/admin directory, and re-installed via dpkg.
Apt-get now goes online, gets the potato stable lists with no problem, and
starts the upgrade process ('tho I didn't continue 'cause the time
estimate was 19 hours!).
- Nick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get won't play
On 21-Aug-00 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Sounds like your DNS is foobar, unless you made a spelling error. At my ISP? I'm not having any other trouble with Net stuff, and I can FTP into the Debian locales with no problem (other than too many users). --- - Nick - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.nickcook.com Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors. -- Woody Allen ---
Re: apt-get won't play
On 21-Aug-00 Nate Bargmann wrote: Maybe it is your DNS. Dose nslookup give you an address when you give it a site name like http.us.debian.org? At a loss myself... nslookup responded with my IP address and a bunch of http.us.debian.org addresses... --- - Nick - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.nickcook.com If you had better tools, you could more effectively demonstrate your total incompetence. ---
apt-get won't play
WARNING: Please push yourself back from the monitor for one second. AAH! Thank you. Apt-get, which worked so well when I went from 2.0 - 2.1, is being a royal grade A bastard (pardon my French!) now. Maybe I'm missing something obvious: - The sources file is set up for deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib - I run apt-get update - apt-get update complains it can't resolve the above address, complains it can't run a stats on the earlier packages on the system, then suggests I run apt-get update! Gee, thanks. I've massaged the source file (only on /, etc.). I even tried listed about four different mirror sites with no luck. Yes, I've read the FMP, but I still can't see what's busted. I can use the source line address to ping the sites, BTW. Can anybody offer any ideas? Thanks! --- - Nick - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.nickcook.com Graduate students and most professors are no smarter than undergrads. They're just older. ---
Re: apt-get won't play
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - apt-get update complains it can't resolve the above address, complains it can't run a stats on the earlier packages on the system, then suggests I run apt-get update! Sounds like your DNS is foobar, unless you made a spelling error. Jason
