Hey James, Thanks, Yeah it's an unknown system.. so I'll go to work on seeing where it's stuffing up.
What i know so far is: bzip2 is working.. and that it _is_ downloading the files.. Turning on debugging in /etc/apt/apt.conf .. I notice it quite happily pulls down the files I also saw this .. Fetching http://apt.au.freshrpms.net/redhat/7.3/en/i386/base/pkglist.os.bz2 to /var/state/apt/lists/partial/apt.au.freshrpms.net_redhat_7.3_en_i386_base_pkglist.os is that correct behaviour ? (stripping the .bz2 off the end) as it doesn't say anything about bunzip2-ing it. unless of course that is just the task it's meant to perform.. ** read in here 1 hour of fuffing ** Anyways, I think I have fixed it (quassi like). Because It was unable to download the latest pkglists (for the reason I am still unsure) I instead manually downloaded them and put them into /var/state/apt/lists and renamed them in the format of the other files .. manually downloaded, un'bzip2 and put it * apt.au.freshrpms.net_redhat_7.3_en_i386_base_pkglist.freshrpms * apt.au.freshrpms.net_redhat_7.3_en_i386_base_pkglist.os * apt.au.freshrpms.net_redhat_7.3_en_i386_base_pkglist.updates these were already there apt.au.freshrpms.net_redhat_7.3_en_i386_base_release apt.au.freshrpms.net_redhat_7.3_en_i386_base_release.freshrpms apt.au.freshrpms.net_redhat_7.3_en_i386_base_release.os apt.au.freshrpms.net_redhat_7.3_en_i386_base_release.updates so then when I did an apt-get update, this time it saw it didn;t need to attempt downloading them, and now I am on the road to fixing the problem at hand (a stuffed install somehow)... weird.. thoughts ? On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 22:27, James Gregory wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 22:02, Ramon Buckland wrote: > > > Err http://apt.au.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386/updates pkglist > > Waited, for bzip2 but it wasn't there > > Hi Ramon, > > So I'm probably stating the obvious, but I'd start by checking that the > machine has a working copy of bzip2. Those files are on freshrpms, I can > see them from here anyway. Is there any possibility that there's some > sort of connectivity problem getting in the way? Lastly, I'd ask rpm to > verify the installation of apt and see if that reveals anything. If you > aren't sure of its origins perhaps you should download a known good copy > from freshrpms and install that. Could be that someone installed apt > from RPMs for a newer redhat ignoring dependencies or something. > > HTH > > James. -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
