On 1 March 1999 at 15:15, Ed Cogburn wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have instal >led >> 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. >> >> [other errors snipped] > > > I had to give up on us.debian about a week ago because of these >kinds of errors. Switch to another mirror, or ftp.debian.org, >until us.debian is fixed. > >
I've had these errors before from other sites, I had it at the same time as other errors telling me files didn't exist, I think it's linked to the site updating. -- Stuart Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]