On 8 Mar 1999, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi, > after installing gnome-apt (with the necessary packages from potato) > onto my hamm system, apt seems to have lost the ftp method. When > I try "apt-get update" I get: > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp could not be found. > Exitcode 100 > > What happened? Is there any cure except downgrading?
gnome-apt requires apt ver. 0.3, which does not (yet) support the ftp method. Your options are to use the http method or to downgrade to an older version of apt. The http method works very well and the number of sites which support it is increasing. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
