Interestingly reading this post on this online forum: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/27477
The first persons response to the post in question is named Mara. He/she says; "Try to choose a different server for downloads. It seems the files on server are broken." I'm not sure if this is the case or not in my situation. Any light? Dave -----Original Message----- From: David Pastern To: Malcolm Hunter; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Sent: 30/09/2002 12:05 Subject: RE: 178 days and counting Malcolm, I would prefer not to. Others are shoving it down my throat that i'm a dumbass microsoft user who'd be better off with Redhat et al. Others are also shoving it down my throat that it's me that's stuffing it up at my end, and that that is why it is not working. Others are saying that they all got it to work without any issues, so therefore it must be me that's at fault. And i'm sick of those implications. If others can get it to work, then why can I not also do the same? As far as I can see, i'm not doing anything wrong with the way I have things setup. OK I admit that i'm new to Debian linux. But I'm not totally new to Linux in general. Anyways, I went ahead and accepted it as "y" and it did some stuff. It then connect to the http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ site. It started d/l packages and it was like "yay, finally". I went and made a cuppa and came back to find this: 0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/kugar_1.2.0-1wood y1_i 386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/kspread_1.2.0-1wo ody1 _i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/kpresenter_1.2.0- 1woo dy1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/koshell_1.2.0-1wo ody1 _i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/kivio_1.2.0-1wood y1_i 386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/kontour_1.2.0-1wo ody1 _i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/kformula_1.2.0-1w oody 1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/kchart_1.2.0-1woo dy1_ i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/koffice-libs_1.2. 0-1w oody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/kword_1.2.0-1wood y1_i 386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdeutils/ktimer_3.0.3-1wo ody1 _i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdepim/knotes_3.0.3-1wood y1_i 386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdeutils/kjots_3.0.3-1woo dy1_ i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdeutils/khexedit_3.0.3-1 wood y1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kfind_3.0.3-1wood y1_i 386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdeutils/kdf_3.0.3-1woody 1_i3 86.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdeutils/kdepasswd_3.0.3- 1woo dy1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdeutils/kcharselect_3.0. 3-1w oody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdeutils/kcalc_3.0.3-1woo dy1_ i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdepim/karm_3.0.3-1woody1 _i38 6.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdeutils/ark_3.0.3-1woody 1_i3 86.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdeutils/kedit_3. 0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdegraphics/kruler_3.0.3- 1woo dy1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdegraphics/ksnapshot_3.0 .3-1 woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdegraphics/kfract_3.0.3- 1woo dy1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdegraphics/kiconedit_3.0 .3-1 woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdegraphics/kpaint_3.0.3- 1woo dy1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdegraphics/kghostview_3. 0.3- 1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdegraphics/kcoloredit_3. 0.3- 1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdegraphics/kview_3.0.3-1 wood y1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kdm_3.0.3-1woody1 _i38 6.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kscreensaver_3.0. 3-1w oody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/konsole_3.0.3-1wo ody1 _i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kate_3.0.3-1woody 1_i3 86.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/konqueror_3.0.3-1 wood y1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdepim/libkcal2_3.0.3-1wo ody1 _i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdepim/kalarmd_3.0.3-1woo dy1_ i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdepim/libkgantt0_3.0.3-1 wood y1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./arts/libarts1_1.0.3-1wood y1_i 386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./arts/libarts1-qt_1.0.3-1w oody 1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/libkonq4_ 3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdelibs/kdelibs-b in_3.0.3-1woody2_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdelibs/kdelibs-d ata_3.0.3-1woody2_all.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdelibs/kdelibs4_ 3.0.3-1woody2_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kaddressb ook_3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kappfinde r_3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/karbon_1. 2.0-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kcontrol_ 3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kdcop_3.0 .3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kdebase-b in_3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kdebugdia log_3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kdeprint_ 3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kdesktop_ 3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/khelpcent er_3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/khotkeys_ 3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kicker_3. 0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kioslave_ 3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/klipper_3 .0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./kdebase/kmenuedit _3.0.3-1woody1_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/./koffice/koffice_1 .2.0-1woody1_all.deb Size mismatch E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-mis sing? Excuse the length of copied text, but I felt it better and wiser to display everything. I checked this also: maxus:/home/maxus# dpkg -l kde Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=============================-=============================-======== ==== ============================================================== ii kde 2.2.25 The K Desktop Environment So obviously it hasn't worked. I'm not sure what is wrong. I'm not sure to do what apt suggests to do as i'm not 100% totally familiar with it. That doesn't mean I have some idea of what it does, or haven't looked at and read the relevant parts of the man page for it. I can only think that I've missed a step somewhere. Anyone got any suggestions (and please don't tell me to go use redhat, mandrake or microsoft thanks). For those that want to have a go at me and call me stupid etc, i've managed to install other things fine (including applications from src code). I'm using a 'clean' debian install as well. I'm just very tired, very angry and very frustrated and wanting some help to get it all running. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Malcolm Hunter To: David Pastern Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Sent: 30/09/2002 11:40 Subject: Re: 178 days and counting David, Install Red Hat, Mandrake or SuSE - it's a lot less complicated and they properly support KDE 3. On Monday 30 September 2002 02:32, David Pastern wrote: > Well that was shortlived...this is the result of apt-get update: > > maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get update > Hit http://people.debian.org ./ Packages > > Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages > > Hit http://people.debian.org ./ Release > > Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages > > Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release > > Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release > > Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Sources > > Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Packages > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Release > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Sources > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Release > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back > ark karm kate kcalc kcharselect kchart kcoloredit kcron kdebase kdepasswd > kdf kdict kdm kedit kfind kformula kfract kghostview khexedit kiconedit > kit > kivio kjots kmail knewsticker knode knotes koffice koffice-libs konqueror > konsole kontour korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpaint kpresenter kruler > kscreensaver ksirc ksnapshot kspread ksysv ktimer kugar kuser kview kword > secpolicy > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded. > > So........I ran apt-get upgrade with the following messages: > > maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back > ark karm kate kcalc kcharselect kchart kcoloredit kcron kdebase kdepasswd > kdf kdict kdm kedit kfind kformula kfract kghostview khexedit kiconedit > kit > kivio kjots kmail knewsticker knode knotes koffice koffice-libs konqueror > konsole kontour korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpaint kpresenter kruler > kscreensaver ksirc ksnapshot kspread ksysv ktimer kugar kuser kview kword > secpolicy > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded. > > So I then tried apt-get dist-upgrade, which reading the man page for > apt-get states: > > dist-upgrade > dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the func� > tion of upgrade, also intelligently handles chang� > ing dependencies with new versions of packages; > apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, > and it will attempt to upgrade the most important > packages at the expense of less important ones if > necessary. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains > a list of locations from which to retrieve desired > package files. > > Now this is what is said by my Debian system when I run the apt-get > dist-upgrade command: > > maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > kab kde kdebase kdebase-audiolibs kdebase-doc kdebase-libs kdelibs3 > kdelibs3-bin kdepim-libs kpm libarts libkdenetwork1 libkmid libkonq3 > The following NEW packages will be installed: > kaddressbook kalarmd kappfinder karbon kcontrol kdcop kdebase-bin > kdebugdialog kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4 kdeprint kdesktop > khelpcenter > khotkeys kicker kioslave klipper kmenuedit konqueror-nsplugins kpager > kpersonalizer ksmserver ksplash ksysguard ktip kwin kxkb libart-2.0-2 > libarts1 libarts1-qt libasound2 libcupsys2 libkcal2 libkdenetwork2 > libkgantt0 libkonq4 libqt3 libqt3-mt libsensors1 python2.2 > 49 packages upgraded, 41 newly installed, 14 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 45.6MB/51.5MB of archives. After unpacking 40.6MB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > I answered yes to this, and it asked me to provide cdrom disk 1, and at > this point I got nervous. Why? Note that where it says the following > packages will be REMOVED it says kdelibs3. Is that not for kde 3? Or is > that also present for kde 2.2. Looking at the package lists on the Debian > site, it does have a kdelibs3 for stable, so i'm wondering if all is ok, > and I can provide the said cdrom and let it read it and do its work. After > my previous troubles i'm just very nervous and hesitant and untrusting of > it all. > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Pastern > To: Thomas Schoepf; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern > Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org > Sent: 30/09/2002 11:17 > Subject: RE: 178 days and counting > > > Ignore post - I just tried removing the stable main and it's working > now. > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Pastern > To: Thomas Schoepf; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern > Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org > Sent: 30/09/2002 11:14 > Subject: RE: 178 days and counting > > > mm well as I am stubborn [I hate losing, especially to a goddamn stupid > machine] - i've reinstalled debian (to ensure that anything that *may* > have > been inadvertently broken was fixed) and i'm going to give kde another > try. > I've edited my sources.list file to show: > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-5 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-3 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-2 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > > deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ stable main > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > I have no idea why the cd stuff is showing as unstable - I *did* > download > stable. I am 100% positive on this. Is this how it should be?? > Anyways...after updating sources.list I run: > > apt-get update > > And it errors out, with this following error message: > > maxus:/etc/apt# apt-get update > E: Malformed line 15 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (Absolute > dist) > > What have I done wrong? It looks fine to my eye (and reading a previous > post from (I think it was) Thomas indicates that it just needs to be > main. > > Dave > > PS I also tried: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ main > > and that didn't work either. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Schoepf > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern > Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org > Sent: 27/09/2002 5:38 > Subject: Re: 178 days and counting > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:36:16PM -0400, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ > > > > It appears to be what I want. That looks like what I did, though, and > > there > > > were still libraries that were required and only available from > > woody/unstable > > Use the deb source written above. The packages there will work with > woody (=stable) without requiring any libs from testing or unstable. > > Bye > Thomas > -- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- KDE Proof Reading Team KDE GB English Translation Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
