On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:16:00 -0800, Vwaju ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > With a little help from my friends, I'm teaching myself networking by > building an internet server. I am running Debian Linux 3.1 on a Dell > Dimension 4100 desktop. > > I have installed ISPConfig, and I now I'm trying to install monit: > > # apt-get install monit > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following NEW packages will be installed: > monit > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 228kB of archives. > After unpacking 643kB of additional disk space will be used. > Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/main monit 1:4.5-1 [228kB] > Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/main monit 1:4.5-1 > Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' [IP: > 35.9.37.225 21] > Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/monit/monit_4.5-1_i386.deb > Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' [IP: > 35.9.37.225 21] > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with > --fix-missing? > > I tried the update and –-fix-missing options, which don't help. > > Here is /etc/apt/sources.list: > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main > > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main > deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main > > #added by me 11/19/08 > #doesn't work! > #deb http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ oldstable main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ oldstable/updates main > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > The man pages for apt-get and for sources.list are kind of hard to > understand. I googled monit_4.5-1_i386.deb, and found it at: > http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/monit > / > > I tried to insert a line in sources.list, but it doesn't work (see > line added 11/19/08, then commented out). > > What does the entry in sources.list needs to look like in order to > download monit_4.5-1_i386.deb?
Oldstable/sarge is now too old and is not on the usual mirrors. This is the line to put in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main and then do an apt-get update. Hope that helps. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
