either you havn't run apt-get update recently enough, or the debian guys are goofin around with packages.. it happens.. just wait a few hours, and try it again Thank You, Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] | Unix/Linux Consulting | [ Haiku Error Message: ] | PC/Mac Repair | [ Chaos reigns within. ] | Networking | [ Reflect, repent, and reboot. ] | http://nerp.net | [ Order shall return. ] *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, John Hawley wrote: > Debian gurus: > > Wonder if I've corrupted one of my Debian installations somehow. > > On an 'apt-get dist-upgrade', or sometimes on an 'install' I get a lot > of http 404 errors. (I'm on 'frozen' release.) If I browse to the > site, I see that the package is there, but it has a different version > number. I don't grok the apt system, but it seems that something is out > of sync somehow. I've done all the apt-get stuff I can think of: > update, upgrade, check, clean, and nothing seems to work. > > I have another machine on which this one is based on that all this works > fine. A few days ago I accidently messed up my /var partition. I > restored it from a backup, but some of the file/dir permissions were > wierd, and there could possibly be files missing. This is the only > thing I can think of that may be connected to the current problems. > > Any fix? I suppose I'll bite the bullet pretty soon here and just > reinstall the system, since its possably corrupted. > > Here's an example of the apt-get problems (the --fix-missing tip at the > bottem didn't help): > > xi:/usr/src# apt-get install smbfs > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > samba-common > The following NEW packages will be installed: > samba-common smbfs > 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded. > > Need to get 920kB of archives. After unpacking 4116kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > Err http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main samba-common 2.0.7-2 > 404 Not Found > Err http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main smbfs 2.0.7-2 > 404 Not Found > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/net/samba-common_2.0.7-2.deb > > 404 Not Found > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/otherosfs/smbfs_2.0.7-2.deb > > 404 Not Found > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing? > xi:/usr/src# > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org