Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-23 Thread Jay Barbee
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:27:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you. > > Apt-get, which worked so well when I went from 2.0 -> 2.1, is being a royal > grade "A" bastard (pardon my French!) now. Maybe I'm missing something > obvious: > > - The sources file is set up for > deb h

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-23 Thread Nate Amsden
just a FYI, about a week or 2 ago, the stable branch changed to 2.2 so you were actually trying to go from 2.0 -> 2.2. nate Nick Cook wrote: > > FWIW, I fixed my apt-get problem by following the old adage: when in > doubt, blow it out. > > I purged apt from my system, manually ftp'ed (if that's

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-22 Thread Nick Cook
FWIW, I fixed my apt-get problem by following the old adage: when in doubt, blow it out. I purged apt from my system, manually ftp'ed (if that's a verb!) apt from the slink/admin directory, and re-installed via dpkg. Apt-get now goes online, gets the potato stable lists with no problem, and star

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: apt-get won't play Date: Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:27:11PM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > WARNING: Please push yourself back from the monitor for on

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-21 Thread nick
On 21-Aug-00 Nate Bargmann wrote: > Maybe it is your DNS. Dose nslookup give you an address when you give it > a site name like http.us.debian.org? > > At a loss myself... nslookup responded with my IP address and a bunch of http.us.debian.org addresses... --- - Nick - [EMAIL PRO

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-21 Thread nick
On 21-Aug-00 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Sounds like your DNS is foobar, unless you made a spelling error. At my ISP? I'm not having any other trouble with Net stuff, and I can FTP into the Debian locales with no problem (other than "too many users"). --- - Nick - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - apt-get update complains it can't resolve the above address, complains it > can't run a stats on the earlier packages on the system, then suggests I run > apt-get update! Sounds like your DNS is foobar, unless you made a spelling error. Jason

apt-get won't play

2000-08-20 Thread nick
WARNING: Please push yourself back from the monitor for one second. AAH! Thank you. Apt-get, which worked so well when I went from 2.0 -> 2.1, is being a royal grade "A" bastard (pardon my French!) now. Maybe I'm missing