On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:27:16 +0000, Colin Watson said: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am having problems getting the latest sources for Licq. > >I can download the dsc diff, and tarball for version 1.0 manually > >from ftp.debian.org but when I try to get them with 'apt-get source > >licq', I get an older version even though my sources.list is set up > >for Woody. > > Have you set it up for woody (i.e. now testing) or do you really mean > unstable? Use the latter for preference now.
I changed it to unstable and was then able to download the files. > > >If I download the files manually, I am unsure what to do next, > > dpkg-source -x licq_1.0-5.dsc This was a problem because it complained that the dsc file was not a gzipped file and I gzipped it. Then it complained that the file was not the size expected. I downloaded it twice with the same problem. thanks -- Andrew