I did a dselect update from within dselect but got the same missing packages as before when I did apt-get dselect-upgrade. I have not had any problems doing it this way before, but in the last two days its not working.
Looking on the debian site, I cannot find an up to date binary for util-linux, this may be the problem. Also, note the apt-cache dump is much smaller than the available file in /var/lib/dpkg . On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote: > > I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they > > be out of date? > > If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the dpkg available > packages database. Apt normally uses its own available packages database, > and does not use the dpkg database. The dpkg available database must also > be kept up to date, but there is no "apt-get dselect-update" for that. > I think that apt-get should do this on every regular "apt-get update", > because it should keep the dpkg available packages list in sync with > the user's expectations. > > You can still do this in dselect or manually, using > apt-cache dumpavail | dpkg --update-avail > > Until apt gets this right on regular updates, you should run update > from dselect. > > It is generally also advisable to manage your package selections in > dselect, so you know eg. what you are upgrading in advance. Then, when > you run install in dselect, it will do the "apt-get dselect-upgrade" > for you. So if you stay in dselect the whole time, it is even less > typing than with apt-get. > > Cheers, > > > Joost > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > > John Covici > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]
