Adam, Not sure if this will help, but try setting "http_proxy" and/or "ftp_proxy" to your gateway address (or ip.ip.ip.ip:port if you do actually have a proxy server on your network) - it fixed the same problem I was having behind a NAT'ing firewall.
In other words: bash/korn/sh # export http_proxy=123.123.123.123 # export ftp_proxy=123.123.123.123 csh/tcsh # setenv http_proxy 123.123.123.123 # setenv ftp_proxy 123.123.123.123 Where 123.123.123.123 is your default gateway. If this works, maybe add it to root's profile. Other than this try "man sources.list" and "man apt" as there are _heaps_ of configuration options you can specify for apt to work with all sorts of weird network environments (like a place I was doing some consultancy for where http/https MUST go via a proxy on port 8080 but ftp goes via a different proxy on port 3128!). Cheers, James > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Hewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 13 February 2003 8:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] apt failure > > > Hi All, > > I have tried over the last few weeks to install various packages from > unstable and although some packages download, most of them give me the > following errors: > > Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main libc6-dev 2.3.1-11 > 404 Not Found > Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main locales 2.3.1-11 > 404 Not Found > Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main libc6 2.3.1-11 > 404 Not Found > Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main gnome-libs-data 1.4.2-11 > 404 Not Found > Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main libgnome-pilot1 0.1.71-5 > 404 Not Found > Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main libgnomeui32 1.4.2-11 > 404 Not Found > Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main libpisock8 0.11.7-2 > 404 Not Found > Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main libpisync0 0.11.7-2 > 404 Not Found > Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main gnome-pilot 0.1.71-5 > 404 Not Found > Failed to fetch > http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6- dev_2.3.1-11_i386.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.3.1-11_all.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.3.1-11_i386.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-libs/gnome-libs-data_1.4.2-11_all.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-pilot/libgnome-pilot1_0.1.71-5_i386.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-libs/libgnomeui32_1.4.2-11_i386.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/pool/main/p/pilot-link/libpisock8_0.11.7-2_i386.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/pool/main/p/pilot-link/libpisync0_0.11.7-2_i386.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-pilot/gnome-pilot_0.1.71-5_i386.deb 404 Not Found I have tried running 'apt-get update' heaps of times, and even changed my source list to point to another server (ftp.au.debian.org or whatever it is) and they were still failing...Does anyone know what the hell it could be?? Cheers, Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
