On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:23:59AM +0100, Steinar Bang wrote: > > Thanx! Adding a "main" section to the apt line removed the > confusion. After doing an update I tried > apt-get --dry-run dist-upgrade > and it listed the following new packages it would like to install: > j2re1.3 j2se-common jre1.1 > > However the actual dist-upgrade fails because it can't find the .deb > files. > > When looking at the Blackdown site with ncftp, I find the directories > expected by apt, but the directories are empty, ie. no .deb files.
my /etc/apt/sources.list says: #java 1.3.1 for debian from blackdown.org; we get it from gwdg-mirror deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable non-free i just had a look at this ftp-server and the .debs are there. maybe you want to try that. hth klaus
