Re: apt-get failing

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:17:24AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote:
Hello,

I am trying to install some new software as well as updating my
packages but apt-get install and apt-get update both fail. apt-get
update fails with:

Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âsecurity.debian.orgâ
Err http://packages.dotdeb.org stable Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âpackages.dotdeb.orgâ
Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âftp.uk.debian.orgâ
Err http://download.webmin.com sarge Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âdownload.webmin.comâ
Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âftp.uk.debian.o
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âsecurity.deb
Failed to fetch http://download.webmin.com/download/repository/dists/sarge/Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving comâ
Failed to fetch http://packages.dotdeb.org/dists/stable/Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âpackages.dotdeb.or
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://packages.dotdeb.org
stable/
all Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/packages.dotble_all_binary-
i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.

When I do a apt-get check, I get the following error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://packages.dotdeb.org
stable/
all Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/
packages.dotdeb.org_dists_stable_all_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2
No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

My /apt/sources.list file is as follows:

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all

I am able to ping external websites using both ip and name, The
server

great that you can ping external websites, but can you ping the debian
servers? those are the ones that count here ;) Also there are some
funky characters and missing characters in your apt output above. Is
that transcription error? or something else?

A

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