Re: apt-get fails with large package

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > I am trying to upgrade a machine to slink, it was going fine till it > attempted to download the "xbooks" package. It waited for ages saying It may well be that your ISP has a 'transparent' web proxy that doesn't quite work, try using wget.. Jason

apt-get fails with large package

I am trying to upgrade a machine to slink, it was going fine till it attempted to download the "xbooks" package. It waited for ages saying 0% [Waiting for file] Then eventually bombed out with: Get:1 http://www.au.debian.org stable/main xbooks 3.3.2.3a-2 [17.4Mb] Err http://www.au.debian.org st