On Wednesday 17 February, John Stevenson wrote: > 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 ??
I'd say that it's a problem with the mirror, as if you login to the site and try and file the file that it's failing on, it doesn't appear to be there. > 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. You could try pointing apt at another mirror and seeing if that works. -- Graham
