On Sep 3, Britton wrote > I have one of these CD's also, with lots of problems with X. I am having > trouble upgrading via the ftp method. I choose pretty much the standard > options, and it hangs like this: > > Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C) > > Connecting to ftp.debian.org... > Login as anonymous... > > Then nothing. Now here is the sad part: It was working less before, and > I got an error on line 7 of a script (the name of which I forget). I > forget what I did to fix this error exactly, I think it had to do with > getting the new dpkg-ftp installed, although I think I thought I had done > that before. Unfortunately, I had already edited this script in an effort > to fix things, it was a line with ftp:Net or something like that in it. I > suspect this may be what is getting me. I reinstalled dpkg-ftp in an > effort to fix this problem, but no luck. Would it be helpful and safe to > purge and reload dpkg itself (mayby that is where the script is)? I am > reluctant to try it. Any ideas greatly appreciated.
My guess is that you fixed something in a script belonging to ?libnet-perl? which provides libnet [*] on which dpkg-ftp depends. Try reinstalling that package. [*] look for "Provides:.*libnet" in /var/lib/dpkg/available to find the precise package name. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
