Le vendredi 01 septembre 2006 à 00:14 +0200, Michael Noisternig a écrit : > <snip> > >> Eventually I figured the problem is that the packages apt-get hangs on > >> are those that are just not in the testing repository! On navigating the > >> web browser to the lib packages directory, I can find libglib2.0 and > >> libgtk2.0, but no 1.2 versions. Seems like there is some problem!? But > >> isn't apt-get supposed to get the dependencies right? > > > > Yeah, that's why I reminded you to apt-get update, so that your list of > > available packages really reflected what was on the server. > > > > I've just downloaded them from > > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gtk+1.2/libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18_i386.deb > > and > > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glib1.2/libglib1.2_1.2.10-10.1_i386.deb > > > > Perhaps your mirror is screwed? > > Sorry, I was wrong. The mirror is ok. Just for some reason unknown to me > apt-get (and aptitude) doesn't manage to get certain packages. apt-get > (aptitude) update/clean/autoclean/dist-upgrade/check makes no difference. > > What now?
Now you've pin-pointed your problem: it is with APT, which fails to download some packages. As far as I understand, the problem is reproducible with the packages that are affected (if a package does not install a first time, insisting won't help). Before anything else, I would try a couple of different mirrors, perhaps the problem really lies there. If that fails, and if you can live with it, you'll have to download those packages by hand and "dpkg -i" them. If you can't, I'd suggest you reinstall your system, with the stable release this time, which should work better. It's not that outdated, and you can get some newer versions of prominent software from www.backports.org. It's possible that there is a problem with your configuration, but it may be a bug in APT. You should send a bug report against this package with all information gathered so far, and be ready to test things if the developers need more input. For such testing purposes, if you wipe-out this installation and install sarge instead, you could setup a chroot (but you may not have to). By the way, have you tried turning on verbosity/debugging options? That would certainly help solving the problem on the long run. I can't help you much further, I hope you'll manage your problems and get a nice Debian box soon! I also hope the bug you've hit, if it is one, will be resolved in due time. If you want more help from this list, I suggest you rename the topic to something more specific, like "APT fails to download some packages". Regards, Thibaut. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
