On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > > > I believe the original poster used dpkg -i to install the same copy > > that apt had downloaded - ie only one copy ever downloaded. > > Then dpkg should have failed to install it since it is a truncated file. No all the files which dselect wasn't able to install (via apt) were installable via "dpkg -i" > > Not sure about libtool, but have a look at bugs 60339 and 60399 for a > > similar problem with man-db. This was posted as another thread on > > debian-devel. > > This looks like something entirely different I used libtool and man-db as examples to show that the problem was caused by apt-get und to post "short" errormessages (instead of the output after failing to install 42 packages). I repeat: All packages were installable with dpkg -i after apt-get was unable to install them. Using another mirror solved this problem. Two different mirrors in Germany were affected by this.
Kind regards Andreas.