Hi Ed, Are you doing your downloads immediately after apt-get update? In case you wait several hours (days) until you decide to download a package, it might be that there is already a newer package avilable, which causes the older one to be removed from the server. So what you should do is: apt-get update just before doing a major thing (like upgrade or dist-upgrade) or trying to apt-get install your package, and if it fails, apt-get update and then apt-get install again. This should work nearly every time.
Ed Falis wrote: > > For about a week now, whenever I try to get anything out of sid, I'm getting > messages like: > > Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xvt/xvt_2.1-13_i386.deb Unable to > fetch file, server said '/debian/pool/main/x/xvt/xvt_2.1-13_i386.deb: No such > file or directory ' > > This is following an apt-get update, which appears to work correctly. Anyone > have an idea as to whether this is something on my side vs the server? > > sources.list is: > > #Libranet > deb http://libranetlinux.com updates/ > > #Debian > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free > #deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > > #Debian Non-US > deb http://non-us.debian.org sid/non-US main contrib non-free > #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free > > #XFree 4.1 > # add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use this repository > deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/$(ARCH)/ > # add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use this source repository > deb-src http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/source/ > -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
