On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:15:22AM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote: > Yes, apt-get is trying to install potato. The man page for sources.list > implies that I could just swap stable with woody. However, I've tried > that without success. Should I point to different ftp mirrors? > > How did you get yours to work? > > -Lars > > 1) error message: > > # apt-get install apache > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Package apache has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents > of sources.list > W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.no.debian.org woody/main > Packages > > (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.no.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-powerpc_Packages) > > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
You got this because ... > > If so, base-config actually installed potato packages. These are the > > kind of messages I was seeing. > > > > To get out of it if this is the problem, check to make sure you have > > woody in your sources.list, apt-get dist-upgrade, then try again. I forgot to mention apt-get update after editing the sources.list. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
