Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-17 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 02:52:59PM +, Camale�n wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:44:50 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 06:54:41PM +, Camale�n wrote: > > > snip... > > Of course. That's the message "apt-get update" gives. > > Yes :-) > >

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:44:50 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 06:54:41PM +, Camale�n wrote: (...) >> > I must be more of a noob than I thought. "Follow the points"...what >> > points? If you mean the debian.org and wiki URLs, they just point to >> > the kernel.org site

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:41:29PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Robert Holtzman wrote: > > I must be more of a noob than I thought. "Follow the points"...what > > points? If you mean the debian.org and wiki URLs, they just point to the > > kernel.org site(s), dead end. > > > > "If you are using squ

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 06:54:41PM +, Camale�n wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:58:28 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 08:47:40PM +, Camale�n wrote: > > (...) > > >> > E: Release file for > >> > http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/squeeze-updates/InReleas

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:58:28 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 08:47:40PM +, Camale�n wrote: (...) >> > E: Release file for >> > http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/squeeze-updates/InRelease is >> > expired (invalid since 34d 23h 23min 35s ) >> >> That's likel

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Holtzman wrote: > I must be more of a noob than I thought. "Follow the points"...what > points? If you mean the debian.org and wiki URLs, they just point to the > kernel.org site(s), dead end. > > "If you are using squeeze, better change that URI".what one? > > Running a search on "sq

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 08:47:40PM +, Camale�n wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:54:52 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > Camaleón writes: > > > > [...] > > > >> It was published in Release Notes: > >> > >> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats- > new.en.html#stable-

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Wayne Topa wrote, on 10/14/11 23:13: > Oh? Let me try to make it a bit easier for you. > > 1. Install Apache2 and dwww packages. > 2. Use dwww to bring up the Debian-Reference HTML Document. > 3. For Packaging select Chapter 2. > 4. In iceweasel key in Ctrl f > 5. In the find box enter, for

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Wayne Topa writes: >> Thanks for the helpful input. I guess I'm disgustingly lazy. > > Oh? Let me try to make it a bit easier for you. > > 1. Install Apache2 and dwww packages. > 2. Use dwww to bring up the Debian-Reference HTML Document. > 3. For Packaging select Chapter 2. > 4. In iceweas

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Wayne Topa
On 10/14/2011 04:00 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Wayne Topa writes: [...] Give a man to fish, feed him for a day Teach a man to fish, feed him for life I used to teach Electronics/Programming many many moons ago. So in your case it was: Give a man a shock and stun him for life. ;) (Sorry cou

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:54:52 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > [...] > >> It was published in Release Notes: >> >> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats- new.en.html#stable-updates >> >> And also in the wiki: >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/StableUpdates

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Wayne Topa writes: [...] > Give a man to fish, feed him for a day > Teach a man to fish, feed him for life > > I used to teach Electronics/Programming many many moons ago. So in your case it was: Give a man a shock and stun him for life. ;) (Sorry couldn't resist..) Thanks for the helpful i

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Camaleón writes: [...] > It was published in Release Notes: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#stable-updates > > And also in the wiki: > > http://wiki.debian.org/StableUpdates Except its no good for over a mnth. (From apt-get update: E: Releas

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Wayne Topa
On 10/14/2011 10:46 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Wayne Topa writes: On 10/14/2011 07:54 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Lisi writes: On Friday 14 October 2011 11:12:35 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm not sure I understand why they still have lists of mirrors and such on that very page. For the benefit of t

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:59:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: (...) > [...] > >> Note: No volatile there. But you have volatile in the errors below. >> Recently added to apt is the ability to have additional files in the >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory. Do you have addit

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Wayne Topa writes: > On 10/14/2011 07:54 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Lisi writes: >> >>> On Friday 14 October 2011 11:12:35 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm not sure I understand why they still have lists of mirrors and such on that very page. >>> >>> For the benefit of those of us still using v

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Wayne Topa
On 10/14/2011 07:54 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Lisi writes: On Friday 14 October 2011 11:12:35 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm not sure I understand why they still have lists of mirrors and such on that very page. For the benefit of those of us still using volatile? Lenny uses volatile, and is going

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Lisi writes: > On Friday 14 October 2011 11:12:35 Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm not sure I understand why they still have lists of mirrors and such >> on that very page. > > For the benefit of those of us still using volatile? Lenny uses > volatile, and is going to be supported until early next yea

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Lisi
On Friday 14 October 2011 11:12:35 Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm not sure I understand why they still have lists of mirrors and such > on that very page. For the benefit of those of us still using volatile? Lenny uses volatile, and is going to be supported until early next year. You do need to chec

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Oct 2011 at 05:12:35 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I actually had forgotten having put a file in source.list.d > > I got the idea off line, some now forgotten site apparently an > outdated page since volatile no longer exists according to these: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-volat

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Thu 13 Oct 2011 at 20:41:40 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I'm not making much sense of this apt-get output but it looks like it >> might be important: >> >> Sorry to include the whole output but there were errors shown in a few >> places. And also wondering what all the Hit

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> First the sources.list: >> >> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free >> # deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main >> >> deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free >> # deb-src h

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 13 Oct 2011 at 20:41:40 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm not making much sense of this apt-get output but it looks like it > might be important: > > Sorry to include the whole output but there were errors shown in a few > places. And also wondering what all the Hit/Ign Stuff is about. Hi

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: > First the sources.list: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > # deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ whe

What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-13 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm not making much sense of this apt-get output but it looks like it might be important: Sorry to include the whole output but there were errors shown in a few places. And also wondering what all the Hit/Ign Stuff is about. First the sources.list: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy