I posted a similar message yesterday and am posting again because I can't use "apt-get install" to install packages over the internet at all. Very serious problem.
Here is an example of what is happening (after apt-get update has completed successfully) : @phoenix:[/home/ssahmed] apt-get install gnus Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: gnus 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 1040kB of archives. After unpacking 3467kB will be used. Err http://http.us.debian.org stable/main gnus 5.6.45-3 Could not open file /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/gnus_5.6.45-3_all.deb - open (2 No such file or directory) Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/news/gnus_5.6.45-3.deb Could not open file /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/gnus_5.6.45-3_all.deb - open (2 No such file or directory) E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing? Exit 100 Its happening for packages in stable and unstable. Seems like I can't install anything any more. I tried using --fix-missing but that doesn't work either. I noticed that the directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial doesn't exist on my system. The version of apt that I am using is : apt 0.3.11 for i386 compiled on Aug 8 1999 10:12:36 and my /etc/apt/sources.list is : # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates deb http://www.netgod.net/ x/ and I am using Debian 2.1 + some packages from potato. Please help!! Thanks. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
