[Tfug] Newbie doesn't understand error message

[Harry McGregor]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 Zardus@nbwrpg.com wrote:

> > Red Hat.
>
> Bah. I'd comment on that response, but I don't want to start a flamewar
> :-)
>
> About the apt error, though, it sounds like the file might be corrupted.
> Could have been corrupted during download or something. First check if its
> there, and if it is, delete it (rm /var/cache/apt/archive/whatever.deb),
> then run an apt-get -f install and it should redownload the file and
> install it.

Actualy, knowing this install itself, I think Chris got hit with a bug in
the woody install cd.

Chris:
	take a text editor (ie vi, nano, etc), and edit the following
file:

/etc/apt/sources.list

remove any of the lines in the file, and add these lines instead:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src  http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free


After you do that, save the file, do an "apt-get update" and then go into
dselect, do an update, go into select, do a space to clear the help file,
then an enter to accept the changes, and probably an enter again to accept
the dependancies.  Go to "install" in dselect", and it should be alright
after that.

For some reason the snapshot cds right now are defaulting to the "stable"
archive, after installing packages from woody ("testing" archive), this
causes the system to get really upset that you are trying to backrev
packages.

As for Bowie's comment, like most of them, please ignore them, or like
several of us, go ahead and kill file him. -:)

			Harry

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