apt-get problem in Debian (sorry slightly OT)

rolf

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Apr 29, 2012, 10:09:06 AM4/29/12

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Running my bifferboards with Debian for a while I got a stupid problem
now. I cannot successfully install new software any more with apt-get.
apt-get install, .. update returns a lot of errors like that:

Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.20-1+lenny1_i386.deb
404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-
free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-
free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian lenny-proposed-updates main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian lenny-proposed-updates main
contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-
free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-
free

The server seems to exist, googling for the problem did not help and I
am not a debian hacker. Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks,

Rolf

Nicolas Le Falher

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Apr 29, 2012, 10:12:53 AM4/29/12

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>Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.20-1+lenny1_i386.deb

Because file doesn't exists in your repo ?

Nicolas

Kyle Gordon

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Apr 29, 2012, 10:17:31 AM4/29/12

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Tried apt-get update ?

rolf

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Apr 29, 2012, 10:26:03 AM4/29/12

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Thanks for your quick reply. But mmh, thats what I mean with "no
hacker", I do not know, what and where is this "repo" (repository I
think) an how should I bring the appropriate contents to it?

Rolf

David Goodenough

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Apr 29, 2012, 10:28:08 AM4/29/12

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have you done an "apt-get update" recently? You need to refresh the list
of what is on the repository so that it knows exactly which deb version to
fetch.

The normal sequence is:-

# update the lists
apt-get update
# update the easy currently installed packages
apt-get upgrade
# now the difficult ones (ones that need other packages or to remove some)
apt-get dist-upgrade
# and clean out the ones that were autoinstalled and are no longer needed
apt-get --purge autoremove

Then if you want to install something new you can use apt-get install.

David

Dimitriy Manevitch

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Apr 29, 2012, 10:28:43 AM4/29/12

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Coment all lines in /etc/apt/sourse.list with # and add deb http://archive.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib

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rolf

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Apr 29, 2012, 10:56:43 AM4/29/12

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On 29 Apr., 16:28, David Goodenough <david.goodeno...@btconnect.com>
wrote:

> On Sunday 29 Apr 2012, rolf wrote:

> ...

> The normal sequence is:-

> ...

> Then if you want to install something new you can use apt-get install.
>
> David

That's what I did (except "--purge autoremove"). So I did it all again
following your receipt. Then I wanted to instal mutt:

apt-get install mutt

That's what I got:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light libidn11
mailx
Suggested packages:
mail-reader eximon4 exim4-doc-html exim4-doc-info gnutls-bin openssl
libmail-spf-query-perl swaks urlview aspell ispell mixmaster ca-
certificates
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light libidn11
mailx
mutt
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
Need to get 4012kB of archives.
After this operation, 9368kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? WARNING: The following packages cannot
be authenticated!
exim4-config exim4-base exim4-daemon-light exim4 bsd-mailx libidn11
mutt
mailx
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Err http://ftp.debian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main exim4-config
4.69-9+lenny4