Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

[Mika Suomalainen]

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Hi,

On 20.07.2012 09:20, Britton Kerin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them 
> keep failing. Internet is working and I can ping things, but most 
> of the packages always fail.
> 
> I'm wondering if ftp.us.debian.org is really overloaded or 
> something?

I don't know whether it's down or not, but there is
http://http.debian.net/ which should prevent users from being affected
by mirrors, which are down and it should also select the nearest mirrors.

Quoting it:

```
Advantages over a good old, specific mirror

No offline mirrors
No out of date mirrors
New mirrors are used
Load-balancing
Faster downloads (when APT is used, via parallel downloads)
Great on mobility

```

(Read "a good old, specific mirror" as "ftp.us.debian.org".)

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Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

[Brian]

On Sat 21 Jul 2012 at 00:25:34 +0400, Darren Baginski wrote:

> 
> 
> 20.07.2012, 12:11, "Alberto Luaces" :
> >
> > You can also try the http://http.debian.net/ redirector for not having
> > to select manually the best mirror.  See the webpage for instructions.
> >
> 
> Don't try that misconception, use netselect or pick mirror manually.

I suppose you are advocating

   http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/netselect

But why is http.debian.net misconceived? Enquiring minds would like to
know.


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Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

[Darren Baginski]

20.07.2012, 12:11, "Alberto Luaces" :
>
> You can also try the http://http.debian.net/ redirector for not having
> to select manually the best mirror.  See the webpage for instructions.
>

Don't try that misconception, use netselect or pick mirror manually.


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Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

[Alberto Luaces]

Andrei POPESCU writes:

> On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:20:28, Britton Kerin wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep 
>> failing.
>> Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages always 
>> fail.
>> 
>> I'm wondering if ftp.us.debian.org is really overloaded or something?
>
> As you might see on http://www.debian.org/mirror/list ftp.us.debian.org 
> is actually several mirrors that are being rotated and you may have hit 
> one that just has problems.
>
> You could either try again, try a specific one from the rotation or try 
> some other mirror in the US (there are lots of them).

You can also try the http://http.debian.net/ redirector for not having
to select manually the best mirror.  See the webpage for instructions.

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Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

[Jerome BENOIT]

my mistake.

On 20/07/12 09:48, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

On Vi, 20 iul 12, 08:25:23, Jerome BENOIT wrote:

Hello List:

Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy.


What do you mean by that? Wheezy is not being released just yet, it's
just been frozen (it will take a few more months).

Kind regards,
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Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:20:28, Britton Kerin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep 
> failing.
> Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages always 
> fail.
> 
> I'm wondering if ftp.us.debian.org is really overloaded or something?

As you might see on http://www.debian.org/mirror/list ftp.us.debian.org 
is actually several mirrors that are being rotated and you may have hit 
one that just has problems.

You could either try again, try a specific one from the rotation or try 
some other mirror in the US (there are lots of them).

Hope this helps,
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Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Vi, 20 iul 12, 08:25:23, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello List:
> 
> Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy.

What do you mean by that? Wheezy is not being released just yet, it's 
just been frozen (it will take a few more months).

Kind regards,
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Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List:

Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy.

Cheers,
Jerome


On 20/07/12 08:20, Britton Kerin wrote:

Hi everyone,

I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep failing.
Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages always fail.

I'm wondering if ftp.us.debian.org is really overloaded or something?

Thanks,
Britton





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difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

[Britton Kerin]

Hi everyone,

I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep failing.
Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages always fail.

I'm wondering if ftp.us.debian.org is really overloaded or something?

Thanks,
Britton


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Re: apt only downloading Packages, not Packages.bz2

[Bob Proulx]

Martin Kraus wrote:
> Hi. For the last few months I've been having problems downloading
> Package files from the debian mirrors. Today I'm not able to
> download anything anymore.

The mirrors have been modified to no longer include the uncompressed
Package files.  Now only the compressed Packages.gz and Packages.bz2
files are available.  The apt tools have been updated to handle this
and they should be downloading the compressed versions.  This saves
both on download bandwidth from the archives and in disk space.  That
change is by intentional design.

> When I look at what aptitude or apt try do download I see only
> Packages file, not the Packages.bz2 or Packages.gz that are on the
> debian mirrors.

Correct.

> anyone else having similar problems?

No problems here.

You did not say what tool you are using.  If this is apt-get or
aptitude then of course those are working okay for everyone or there
would be lots of complaints.  This makes me think you are using some
other tool such as debmirror or reprepro or something and might have
an older copy that isn't handling the archive format change.

Please post the exact commands you are running and the exact output
you are seeing.

If you are using apt-get or aptitude then also post the non-comment
parts of the /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
files.

Bob


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[Martin Kraus]

Hi. For the last few months I've been having problems downloading Package files 
from
the debian mirrors. Today I'm not able to download anything anymore. When I
look at what aptitude or apt try do download I see only Packages file, not the
Packages.bz2 or Packages.gz that are on the debian mirrors. 

anyone else having similar problems?

thanks
Martin


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Re: [Fwd: downloading packages]

[Didde Brockman]

From: pickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 januari 2005 19.17.40 MET
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: downloading packages

Hi. I'm trying to use "apt-get install" to install Latex. Whenever I try
to fetch "tetex-base" I get an error "404 Not Found". The other
component packages seem to download ok, so I think the problem is at
your end with that one package. Can you help?
Thanks,
-Tom Pickett

You probably need to run an "apt-get update" to update the local list of packages. Sometimes they go stale if the mirrors get updated or shuffled around...

[Fwd: downloading packages]

[pickett]

--- Begin Message ---
Hi. I'm trying to use "apt-get install" to install Latex. Whenever I try
to fetch "tetex-base" I get an error "404 Not Found". The other
component packages seem to download ok, so I think the problem is at
your end with that one package. Can you help?
Thanks,
-Tom Pickett
--- End Message ---

Re: downloading packages

[David Moreno Garza]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 16:11 +, pickett wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to use "apt-get install" to fetch Latex from your stable
> packages list. However, every time I try to fetch the "tetex-base"
> library I get an error. All other components download ok, so I think the
> problem is at your end. Can you help?

Hello,

debian-www mailing list is probably not the best place to send your
question.

Anyway, it would be useful to provide the exact error you are getting.

Regards,

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Re: downloading packages separately

[Karsten M. Self]

on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:33:13AM -0500, Johann Koenig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Friday February 13 at 04:11pm
> Charles Leow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I have a (slow) dial-up connection but wish to download the
> > x-window-system using apt-get.
> > 
> > I would like to download the *.deb files separately from another
> > source (with faster Internet connection).
> > 
> > How can I easily obtain all the *.deb files to achieve this?  I did a
> > search of the packages on www.debian.org for x-window-system and was
> > met with many links to all the dependent modules.  Is there a way I
> > can pull down all relevant files?
> 
> apt-cache show apt-zip

Also of use if you're maintaining multiple systems:  apt-proxy.


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[Johann Koenig]

On Friday February 13 at 04:11pm
Charles Leow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have a (slow) dial-up connection but wish to download the
> x-window-system using apt-get.
> 
> I would like to download the *.deb files separately from another
> source (with faster Internet connection).
> 
> How can I easily obtain all the *.deb files to achieve this?  I did a
> search of the packages on www.debian.org for x-window-system and was
> met with many links to all the dependent modules.  Is there a way I
> can pull down all relevant files?

apt-cache show apt-zip
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downloading packages separately

[Charles Leow]

Hi,
 
I have a (slow) dial-up connection but wish to 
download the x-window-system using apt-get.
 
I would like to download the *.deb files separately 
from another source (with faster Internet connection).
 
How can I easily obtain all the *.deb files to 
achieve this?  I did a search of the packages on www.debian.org for x-window-system and was met 
with many links to all the dependent modules.  Is there a way I can pull 
down all relevant files?
 
regards,
Charles

RE: Have CDs but base-config downloading packages??

[David Turetsky]

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From: Eric George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 


   Why is it downloading when I have all the CDs?  I didn't add any
other 
   apt sources.


Comment out (#) all the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list which do not
reference CDs

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Have CDs but base-config downloading packages??

[Eric George]

Ok, this is my first try @ Debian.  I've gotten to the base-config step, 
I've scanned all 7 CDs + the update CD, and then select some things from 
tasksel.  I've skipped the dselect step at this time.

Then I get some message about building the dependency tree, and I get a 
long list of packages, and finally the statement:

"2 packages upgraded, 758 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 66.9MB/404MB of archives. After unpacking 1202MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]"

I enter yes, and it prompts me for disk one.  I put it in & hit enter.  

It then starts downloading packages?!? libperl, libssl, perl-modules, etc
This is via dialup, and it says 3h10m remaining.

Why is it downloading when I have all the CDs?  I didn't add any other 
apt sources.
I'd rather not tie up my line for that long, even if it ddoes complete 
(unlikely given my connection).
and what if I want to build a machine that has no network connection?  
How do I get around this.  If I take the connection dowm, it appears to 
just keep trying it.
Thanks
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Re: downloading packages

[Rhodri Evans]

If your friend's computer is a x86 intel, go to the
debian.org webpage and burn just the cd 1 binary. 

There you will find everything you need (including x
windows, desktops environments, etc, etc). 

I recommend you to read the installation manual while
doing the installation. 

good luck 

Rhodri

Here the instalation manual 

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual 

and here the pages where you have images to burn the
cd with

http://www.debian.org/CD/

if you've got a x86 intel and bandwith, the easiest
option is to download images using ftp or http

Here you have one situated in your country

http://ftp.zcu.cz/ftp/pub/linux/debian-cd/3.0_r0/i386/

for example, choose the binary-1.iso


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> 
> A friend of mine would like to install debian at his
> home computer,
> but he dont want to bother with all 7 CDs.
> 
> He would like to burn one CD with base system and
> desired packages and 
> at home install from this CD.
> 
> My question is how can he easily download wanted
> packages with 
> dependencies... . He is running FreeBSD, so tools
> like apt-get -download 
> only are not for him.
> 
> 
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[Mirek Dobsicek]

Hi,

A friend of mine would like to install debian at his home computer,
but he dont want to bother with all 7 CDs.

He would like to burn one CD with base system and desired packages and 
at home install from this CD.

My question is how can he easily download wanted packages with 
dependencies... . He is running FreeBSD, so tools like apt-get -download 
only are not for him.


		Mirek Dobsicek


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Re: apt-get downloading packages question

[Stuart Miles]

> you might want to use it.. (but not with gnome-apt)
> 

Dare I ask why not with gnome-apt?


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Re: apt-get downloading packages question

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Preston Landers wrote:

> Anyway, I still have about 50 mb of packages to download and apt-get
> annonyingly gives up the whole process with a single bad transfer or
> connection.  all I have to do is press enter about three times to get it

It should give up the file it is downloading but reconnect for the other
files.. Actually depending on what 0.3.0 bugfix varient you got you might
have various sorts of problems.. (including repeated getsockerr errors)

I have placed the latest CVS apt at

http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt_19980223_i386.deb

you might want to use it.. (but not with gnome-apt)

Jason

apt-get downloading packages question

[Preston Landers]

Hey there...

Finally got apt-get to download slink packages for me.  I don't know
exactly how I fixed it.  I did two things: download + install slink base
manually, and install apt-get 0.3.0.  

Anyway, I still have about 50 mb of packages to download and apt-get
annonyingly gives up the whole process with a single bad transfer or
connection.  all I have to do is press enter about three times to get it
to start over, but for some reason, it's happening every few minutes and
I have to babysit it.  There's got to be a better way ... a way for
apt-get to keep retrying.  By the way, I'm using apt-get within dselect.

Any ideas?

many thanks in advance,
Preston

Re: downloading packages from WindowsNT

[John_Gay]

>> . . . I've been told that I can't have the Linux box on when
>> I'm at work so I was wondering if it was possible to set-up the Linux
box
>> to fetch the packages from the Windows Machine automatically while I'm
>> away?

>Are you dialing the Windows machine over a telephone line?

No, as I said, I am using a null-modem cable from the Windows machine about
3 ft from the Linux box.

>You can undoubtedly find a package to automate dialing and downloading
>(I'd look at Kermit, myself) but why not just invest $3 in a CD-ROM

Can Kermit ( or some other Debian Linux package) be set to automatically
download over the null-modem cable? I don't even have access to the MAN
pages on my system!

>
>If you don't have a CD-ROM drive, invest $29 in a 12 speed at your
>local CompUSA.  Save yourself a world of hair-pulling downloading

I believe the closest CompUSA is on the other side of the Atlantic(never
mind the address, I'm in Ireland) and the machine isn't my property, it is
borrowed from work and I can only take so many liberties before the boss
takes it away( I've already stretched the limits by setting up the Base
system before I asked)

>entire distributions.
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>

Thanks for your suggestions but it's just not do-able in my current
situation. Believe me, when I get my own PC at home, it will be a much
better and cleaner install. Until then, I suffer for working at the ONLY
networking company that insists on using WindowsNT.

Cheers,

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[John_Gay]

I've been loading Linux the hard way by modeming the packages from the
Windows PC I have all the packages on to the Linux box via a null-modem
cable with zmodem. I've been told that I can't have the Linux box on when
I'm at work so I was wondering if it was possible to set-up the Linux box
to fetch the packages from the Windows Machine automatically while I'm
away? I am installing bo but at the rate that I can transfer the packages
on my own time, hamm will be a footnote in the history books! Thanks again
for all your help and I hope to have this up and running before my daughter
retires.

Cheers,

 John Gay



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Re: downloading packages

[Dale Scheetz]

On Sat, 21 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Now that i have downloaded the base linux system, i need to run dselect to
> load any packages.  Heres my question, where are all the packages that are
> shown in dselect located?  Are they on the base floppies, or do i have to
> download them from the net?  I would like to download them all into my dos
> partion and just pick and choose which ones i want all at once. I know there
> is a way to access them straight from the ftp site, but my dos partition is
> the only place a have access to the net.  Also, in dselect, are these all the
> packages that are available to me?  I would really like to learn EVERY option
> available to me, but the easyist would be met with the same gratitude.
>  Thanks

You will want to get the msdos-i386 directory, as the file names will not
get mangled. You will need an ftp client that can follow symlinks and
retrieve the files. Some clients (primarily windows related) don't deal
with symbolic links correctly. The msdos-i386 directory is nothing but
symbolic links that have adequate file names.

Currently this directory tree contains 316035 1k blocks (k in this case
equals 1024 bytes). This 300 + meg of packages will need disk space to
live on.

Another option would be to buy a CD from one of the many fine vendors
available, like myself, for instance ;-)

Luck,

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[JediPoster]

Now that i have downloaded the base linux system, i need to run dselect to
load any packages.  Heres my question, where are all the packages that are
shown in dselect located?  Are they on the base floppies, or do i have to
download them from the net?  I would like to download them all into my dos
partion and just pick and choose which ones i want all at once. I know there
is a way to access them straight from the ftp site, but my dos partition is
the only place a have access to the net.  Also, in dselect, are these all the
packages that are available to me?  I would really like to learn EVERY option
available to me, but the easyist would be met with the same gratitude.
 Thanks


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