Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect
I guess we are better off using Imperial college in london that manchester. I now use src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/debian and have had no problems. David Wright wrote: Quoting John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions in the updatepackages/Readme file on the ftp site. I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error message below. Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation? Any clues ?? This is what I sent to mcc.ac.uk back in August last year. I got no reply. --8 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:26:13 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ftp.mcc.ac.uk oddities I've emailed this address because the file ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/.message says that if I have problems, I should email %E [sic]. I use the ftp.mcc.ac.uk server to download from the /pub/linux/distributions/Debian tree. Over recent weeks, I seem to have problems with parts of the tree suddenly disappearing. My client freezes up, and if I kill it and reconnect, chunks of the tree are missing, but they usually return after a few minutes if I keep re-listing the directory. Am I alone here? For example, just a few minutes ago, I could only see the READMEs and /hamm in /pub/linux/distributions/Debian, but everything is back now. --8 Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect
I'm not sure that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is best for you to bother about this. I've forwarded this correspondence to the person who probably is best. Ted. On 20-Feb-99 John Stevenson wrote: I guess we are better off using Imperial college in london that manchester. I now use src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/debian and have had no problems. David Wright wrote: Quoting John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions in the updatepackages/Readme file on the ftp site. I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error message below. Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation? Any clues ?? This is what I sent to mcc.ac.uk back in August last year. I got no reply. --8 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:26:13 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ftp.mcc.ac.uk oddities I've emailed this address because the file ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/.message says that if I have problems, I should email %E [sic]. I use the ftp.mcc.ac.uk server to download from the /pub/linux/distributions/Debian tree. Over recent weeks, I seem to have problems with parts of the tree suddenly disappearing. My client freezes up, and if I kill it and reconnect, chunks of the tree are missing, but they usually return after a few minutes if I keep re-listing the directory. Am I alone here? For example, just a few minutes ago, I could only see the READMEs and /hamm in /pub/linux/distributions/Debian, but everything is back now. --8 Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20-Feb-99 Time: 19:50:43 -- XFMail --
Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error message below. Istr the -m flag of apt-get is what you're after. -m Attempt to continue if archives are unlocatable SRH -- Steve HaslamValidation Engineer, ARM Limited, Cambridge, England there's something cold in the way you touch me it's just the feeling you'd be better without me [mesh]
not a plain file - apt install with dselect
Hello Debian Land, I am upgrading from Hamm and have come across a problem with using apt method of installing the new packages. I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions in the updatepackages/Readme file on the ftp site. I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error message below. Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation? Any clues ?? 264 packages upgraded, 65 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 754k/149M of archives. After unpacking 29.1M will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http [13.0k] Error ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http 550 /pub/linux/distributions/Debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/dpkg-http_0. 19.deb: not a plain file. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl Its grip'd, its sorted..
Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect
On Wednesday 17 February, John Stevenson wrote: However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error message below. Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation? Any clues ?? I'd say that it's a problem with the mirror, as if you login to the site and try and file the file that it's failing on, it doesn't appear to be there. Get ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http [13.0k] Error ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http 550 /pub/linux/distributions/Debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/dpkg-http_0. 19.deb: not a plain file. You could try pointing apt at another mirror and seeing if that works. -- Graham
Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect
Quoting John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions in the updatepackages/Readme file on the ftp site. I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error message below. Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation? Any clues ?? This is what I sent to mcc.ac.uk back in August last year. I got no reply. --8 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:26:13 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ftp.mcc.ac.uk oddities I've emailed this address because the file ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/.message says that if I have problems, I should email %E [sic]. I use the ftp.mcc.ac.uk server to download from the /pub/linux/distributions/Debian tree. Over recent weeks, I seem to have problems with parts of the tree suddenly disappearing. My client freezes up, and if I kill it and reconnect, chunks of the tree are missing, but they usually return after a few minutes if I keep re-listing the directory. Am I alone here? For example, just a few minutes ago, I could only see the READMEs and /hamm in /pub/linux/distributions/Debian, but everything is back now. --8 Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
