The download problem looks like it could be due to the server dropping connections.
For your other questions: have you looked at 'man apt-get'; and do you mean the apt package or all the Packages.gz files? -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tim Pritlove wrote: > On 29.05.2002 5:18 Uhr, "Robert M. Zigweid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Any hints? > >> > >> Tim > >> > >> > >> > > I submitted this bug to bugzilla yesterday. The workaround is to install the > > binary and then upgrade it via fink. Little hackish, but it works. > > Thanks. It worked. > > To achieve this I had to do a "apt-get update" which - although it obviously > managed to retrieve the necessary files - still reports many obscure errors: > is it normal that the package download aborts and only partial downloads are > made? Can't remember that this worked for me at any internet connection... > > ===== > [fnord:~] tim% sudo apt-get update > 0% [Connecting to us.dl.sourceforge.net] > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > Err file: local/main Packages > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > 6% [Connecting to us.dl.sourceforge.net] > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > Err file: stable/main Packages > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > 13% [Connecting to us.dl.sourceforge.net] > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > Err file: stable/crypto Packages > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net release/main Packages > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net release/main Release > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net release/crypto Packages > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net release/crypto Release > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net current/main Packages > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net current/main Release > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net current/crypto Packages > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net current/crypto Release > Failed to fetch > file:/sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages Sub-process > gzip returned an error code (1) > Failed to fetch > file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages Sub-process > gzip returned an error code (1) > Failed to fetch > file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > W: Couldn't stat source package list file: local/main Packages > (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_local_main_binary-darwin-powerpc_Packa > ges) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list file: stable/main Packages > (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-powerpc_Pack > ages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list file: stable/crypto Packages > (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_stable_crypto_binary-darwin-powerpc_Pa > ckages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones > used instead. > ========= > > > Is there any reference what "apt-get update" really does? > > Who is maintaining these Packages? > > Tim > > --- > Tim Pritlove, Discordian Evangelist, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > If organized religion is the opium of the masses then > disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. > > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
