It may be a bug, but I am not sure. You can fix it by using the http port.
That is, change your sources.list to http://ftp.us.debian.org... hope it helps... ____________________________________________________________________________ Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _____________________________________________________________________________ On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have > installed > apt for hamm. I did changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to > ftp://ftp.us.debia.org/frozen main contrib non-free. I then did an > apt-get update followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade. While trying to > d/l, apt gave me the following errors: > > > ERROR > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/locales_2.0.7.19981211-5.deb > 550 > /debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/locales_2.0.7.19981211-5.deb: not > a plain file. > ERROR > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/base/libc6_2.0.7.19981211-5.deb > 550 /debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/base/libc6_2.0.7.19981211-5.deb: > not a plain file. > ERROR > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/base/makedev_2.3.1-16.deb > 550 /debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/base/makedev_2.3.1-16.deb: not a > plain file. > ERROR > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/base/modconf_0.2.24.1.deb > 550 /debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/base/modconf_0.2.24.1.deb: not a > plain file. > ERROR > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/base/timezones_2.0.7.19981211-5.deb > 550 > /debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/base/timezones_2.0.7.19981211-5.deb: > not a plain file. > ERROR > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libc6-dev_2.0.7.19981211-5.deb > 550 > /debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libc6-dev_2.0.7.19981211-5.deb: > not a plain file. > ERROR > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/xfree86-common_3.3.2.3a-10.deb > 550 > /debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/xfree86-common_3.3.2.3a-10.deb: not > a plain file. > ERROR > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g-dev_3.3.2.3a-10.deb > 550 /debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g-dev_3.3.2.3a-10.deb: > not a plain file. > ERROR > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.2.3a-10.deb > 550 /debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.2.3a-10.deb: not a > plain file. > > > I have tried to upgrade multiple times, so I know that it is not a site > specific problem. What is going on? > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
