On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:12:41AM -0400, John Covici wrote: > I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some > missing files and indeed if I ftp to the debian site the files are > not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not > there? > > I am running woody here and here is the relevant portion of the > output. > > 321 packages upgraded, 18 newly installed, 4 to remove and 13 not upgraded. > Need to get 8864kB/169MB of archives. After unpacking 9560kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main > bsdutils 1:2.11g-4 [34.7kB] > Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main bsdutils 1:2.11g-4 > Unable to fetch file, server said > '/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/bsdutils_2.11g-4_i386.deb: No such file or > directory. ' > Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main mount 2.11g-4 [97.1kB] > Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main mount 2.11g-4 > Unable to fetch file, server said > '/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/mount_2.11g-4_i386.deb: No such file or > directory. '
[many more] > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with > --fix-missing? > > Any assistance would be appreciated. Your available packages database is out of date, it seems. Run "dselect update select install" and see if it helps. Cheers, Joost
