On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 08:32:57PM -0600, Mike McNally wrote: > The full error is: > Could not create a socket - socket (93 Protocol not supported)
No idea what protocol 93 is (it's not listed in /etc/protocols). FTP should use the tcp protocol (6). > 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. But what is dselect using to get packages? CD-ROM? Based on sources.list below, did dselect work with apt-get from CD-ROM? > 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???????????????????????? Good question? Maybe you can use http://... instead of ftp. Does it make a difference? Do you have some funky /etc/apt/apt.conf ? A broken apt.conf will cause problems. Still, no idea what the 93 is... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
