Re: Aptitude installation

2007-12-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 01:06:52PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:40:53 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12/27/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This may or may not be related to your problem, but you would > > > probably be

Re: Aptitude installation

2007-12-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:40:53 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/27/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This may or may not be related to your problem, but you would > > probably be better off using a country mirror alias as detailed in > > that email (for inst

Re: Aptitude installation

2007-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/27/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may or may not be related to your problem, but you would probably > be better off using a country mirror alias as detailed in that email (for > instance, ftp.us.debian.org if you live in the US). Edit > /etc/apt/sources.list and chan

Re: Aptitude installation

2007-12-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 06:13:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > I am trying to install gcc and it cannot access ftp.debian.org to install the > package. I am using aptitude to do this. I cannot ping ftp.debian.org, so > the server appears inaccessible. Is there a different mir

Aptitude: Installation problems

2000-12-28 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! When using the version of aptitude that's shipped with potato (0.0.4) I get the following (rather strange) error message when I press "G" in order to start the installation: E: Internal Error: path name to install is not absolute .deb I was reading the README file and the man page coming alo