Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 09/10/2007, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what >>> distro/version any *nix installation is? Today I'm playing with a >>> friend's Debian s

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/10/2007, Marcello Barreto de Medeiros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could try: cat /etc/issue > > ##Fedora box: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/issue > Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) > Kernel \r on an \m > > ##Debian box: > jpa:~# cat /etc/issue > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 \n \l > > ##Ubuntu box:

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-09 Thread Marcello Barreto de Medeiros
You could try: cat /etc/issue ##Fedora box: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/issue Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) Kernel \r on an \m ##Debian box: jpa:~# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 \n \l ##Ubuntu box: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:07:09 +0200 "D

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/10/2007, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I guess there won't be one place to look in all OSs to discover > which one it is. > > In OpenBSD, the first line of the dmesg is > OpenBSD (version) (kernel version) > > In Debian, to know the version, you really have to lo

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:56:37PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 09/10/2007, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what > > > distro/version any *nix installation is? Today I'm playing with a > > > friend's Debian system, at hom

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/10/2007, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what > > distro/version any *nix installation is? Today I'm playing with a > > friend's Debian system, at home I've Ub

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/10/2007, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what > > distro/version any *nix installation is? Today I'm playing with a > > friend's Debian system, at home I've Ubuntu and Fedora, and tomorrow I > > might sit at an OpenSuse

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what > distro/version any *nix installation is? Today I'm playing with a > friend's Debian system, at home I've Ubuntu and Fedora, and tomorrow I > might sit at an OpenSuse machi

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 08/10/2007, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I do not know what > > >version Debian this is, or how up to date it is, as it is not my > > >machine. How can I check? > > cat /etc/debian_version > > Thank you Gerard. OT, b

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 08/10/2007, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/08/2007 09:06 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > When I run apt-get update, it gets stuck at "99% [Waiting for headers] > > ". I have tried removeing repos from /etc/apt/sources.list but it did > > not help. What must be done to correct this? I d

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 08/10/2007, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I do not know what > >version Debian this is, or how up to date it is, as it is not my > >machine. How can I check? > cat /etc/debian_version Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what distro/version any *nix installatio

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-08 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/08/2007 09:06 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > When I run apt-get update, it gets stuck at "99% [Waiting for headers] > ". I have tried removeing repos from /etc/apt/sources.list but it did > not help. What must be done to correct this? I do not know what > version Debian this is, or how up to date i

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-08 Thread Gerard Robin
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:06:57PM +, Dotan Cohen wrote: From: Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian user Subject: Cannot apt-get update X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.86 tagged_above=3.6 required=5.3 tests=[MIME_BASE64_NO_NAME=0.224, SARE_MSGID_LONG40=0.637, SP

Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
When I run apt-get update, it gets stuck at "99% [Waiting for headers] ". I have tried removeing repos from /etc/apt/sources.list but it did not help. What must be done to correct this? I do not know what version Debian this is, or how up to date it is, as it is not my machine. How can I check? Do