I had the same problem. Have you checked /etc/apt/apt.conf for your proxy settings if you are behind a firewall? There is a sample in /usr/share/doc/apt-xxxx/examples
Laurie On 06 Aug 2003 22:02:18 +1000 Ramon Buckland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Helping out someone who has Redhat and has apt-rpm > running.. > just recently and not too sure if it's ever been seen or not, > > getting errors about pkglist not existsing when > doing an 'apt-get update' > > Here is a dump of the errors im seeing, any help would be > appreciated as the system from an apt-get dist-upgrade (7.3 to 7.3) > is now HIGHLY stuffed and im trying to rule stuff out > (incidently, I see this message using heaps of mirrors and even > attempting 8.0 update - didn't go there yet though) > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get update > Get:1 http://apt.au.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386 release [1123B] > Fetched 1123B in 0s (4540B/s) > Get:1 http://apt.au.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386/os pkglist [405kB] > Hit http://apt.au.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386/os release > Get:2 http://apt.au.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386/updates pkglist > [141kB] > Hit http://apt.au.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386/updates release > Get:3 http://apt.au.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386/freshrpms pkglist > [52.6kB] > Hit http://apt.au.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386/freshrpms release > Err http://apt.au.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386/os pkglist > Waited, for bzip2 but it wasn't there > Err http://apt.au.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386/updates pkglist > Waited, for bzip2 but it wasn't there > Err http://apt.au.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386/freshrpms pkglist > Waited, for bzip2 but it wasn't there > Fetched 599kB in 21s (28.2kB/s) > Failed to fetch > http://apt.au.freshrpms.net/redhat/7.3/en/i386/base/pkglist.os Waited, > for bzip2 but it wasn' t there > Failed to fetch > http://apt.au.freshrpms.net/redhat/7.3/en/i386/base/pkglist.updates > Waited, for bzip2 but it wasn't there > Failed to fetch > http://apt.au.freshrpms.net/redhat/7.3/en/i386/base/pkglist.freshrpms > Waited, for bzip2 but i t wasn't there > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old > ones used instead. > > > -- > 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
