Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-20 Thread Ted Harding
I'm not sure that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is best for you to bother about this. I've forwarded this correspondence to the person who probably is best. Ted. On 20-Feb-99 John Stevenson wrote: > I guess we are better off using Imperial college in london that > manchester. I now use src.doc.ic.ac.uk/pack

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-20 Thread John Stevenson
I guess we are better off using Imperial college in london that manchester. I now use src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/debian and have had no problems. David Wright wrote: > > Quoting John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [...] > > I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-19 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt >wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I >can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a >few of the files. See the

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] > I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using > the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions > in the updatepackages/Readme file on the ftp site. > > I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems th

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread Graham Ashton
On Wednesday 17 February, John Stevenson wrote: > However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error > message below. > > Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation? > Any clues ?? I'd say that it's a problem with the mirror, as if you login to the site

not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian Land, I am upgrading from Hamm and have come across a problem with using apt method of installing the new packages. I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions in the updatepackages/Readme file on t