Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-11 Thread Felix Miata
bw composed on 2018-01-11 14:44 (UTC-0500): > I wouldn't install mc from unstable or testing on stretch, BUT I do love > the program. I don't consider it broken at all, Running which version(s)? > and over the years it has > been well-maintained and I appreciate it. I use it all day every da

Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-11 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > I can see what you are saying about mixing stable and unstable but don't > completely follow it in this case. Only mc and mc-data from unstable are > needed and the libraries on stable are sufficient to produce a working > mc. Are you suggesting these libraries could be subject to f

Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Jan 2018 at 13:43:19 +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 07:35:59AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > Hi, > > >I don't know what the intent is in the existence of: > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mc/mc_4.8.19-1_i386.deb & > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/p

Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 07:35:59AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Hi, >I don't know what the intent is in the existence of: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mc/mc_4.8.19-1_i386.deb & > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mc/mc-data_4.8.19-1_all.deb Those are the packages available

Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-11 Thread Felix Miata
Sven Hoexter composed on 2018-01-11 10:08 (UTC+0100): > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:52:00AM +0100, john doe wrote: >> Felix Miata wrote: >> > Trying to get a non-broken recent version of mc, the instructions on >> > https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ fail[1]. How can I get a >> > non-bro

Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:52:00AM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/11/2018 8:08 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Trying to get a non-broken recent version of mc, the instructions on > > https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ fail[1]. How can I get a > > non-broken > > relatively recent mc package inst

Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-11 Thread john doe
On 1/11/2018 8:08 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Trying to get a non-broken recent version of mc, the instructions on https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ fail[1]. How can I get a non-broken relatively recent mc package installed, e.g. patched 4.8.19, or 4.8.20? Breakage was fixed 15 months ago[2].

Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-11 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > Didn't help. :-( can you open it in the browser

Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
likcoras composed on 2018-01-11 16:17 (UTC+0900): > On 01/11/2018 04:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote: >> ... >> err:9 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main i386 Packages >> 404 Not Found... > > Try adding a trailing slash to the deb url: > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ > and not >

Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-10 Thread likcoras
On 01/11/2018 04:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > ... > err:9 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main i386 Packages > 404 Not Found... Try adding a trailing slash to the deb url: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ and not http://ftp.debian.org/debian

404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
Trying to get a non-broken recent version of mc, the instructions on https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ fail[1]. How can I get a non-broken relatively recent mc package installed, e.g. patched 4.8.19, or 4.8.20? Breakage was fixed 15 months ago[2]. [1] # apt-get update ... err:9 http://ftp