The full error is: Could not create a socket - socket (93 Protocol not supported)
apt-get was working fine and then I made the mistake of attempting an upgrade which required editing the sources.list. To get a newer ver of gnome or kde or something like that. Eventually it was obvious that the edited sources.list was not going to work and, as usually, returning to the original text did not fix the problem. I have been able to do an ftp upgrade via dselect but would like to get apt-get running. To that end I went to ftp.debian.org and ftp://non-us.debian.org and found these paths (for goodness sake, this should work) sources.list # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato main contrib non-free deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-security/dists/potato/updates main contrib non-free #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20000814)]/ potato contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20000814)]/ potato contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main What the f is a 93 protocol socket error???????????????????????? -- Mike McNally [EMAIL PROTECTED]
