???????? How's that? The URL shown in the results of a search for "Pittsburgh" is:
http://debian.mirrors.pair.com/ How did you know to add "debian/" to the end of it? Do I do that for any of those URL's? If that's true, I'd prefer to use a different mirror, slightly closer, listed as: ftp://ftp.cs.stevens-tech.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/ I tried it with and without the extra 'debian/' with no luck. However, adding 'debian/' to the Pittsburgh URL seems to be doing something, as so far the procedure has found five of the 15915 required files to build the final package, so I'm getting somewhere. On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 04:49:17 +1300, you wrote: >wrong url. see: > >http://debian.mirrors.pair.com/debian/ > >A little investigation of the site would have shown this.