Hello Debian Land, I am upgrading from Hamm and have come across a problem with using apt method of installing the new packages.
I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions in the updatepackages/Readme file on the ftp site. I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error message below. Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation? Any clues ?? 264 packages upgraded, 65 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 754k/149M of archives. After unpacking 29.1M will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http [13.0k] Error ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http 550 /pub/linux/distributions/Debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/dpkg-http_0. 19.deb: not a plain file. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
