Re: apt-get failing

On Oct 31, 4:00 pm, Andrew Sackville-West
<and...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:

Errhttp://security.debian.orgetch/updates Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âsecurity.debian.orgâ
Errhttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstable Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âpackages.dotdeb.orgâ
Errhttp://ftp.uk.debian.orgetch Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âftp.uk.debian.orgâ
Errhttp://download.webmin.comsarge Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âdownload.webmin.comâ
Failed to fetchhttp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âftp.uk.debian.o
Failed to fetchhttp://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âsecurity.deb
Failed to fetchhttp://download.webmin.com/download/repository/dists/sarge/Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving comâ
Failed to fetchhttp://packages.dotdeb.org/dists/stable/Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âpackages.dotdeb.or
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package listhttp://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 listhttp://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:

debhttp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/etch main
deb-srchttp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/etch main
debhttp://security.debian.org/etch/updates main
deb-srchttp://security.debian.org/etch/updates main
debhttp://download.webmin.com/download/repositorysarge contrib
debhttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstable all
deb-srchttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstable 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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Thanks very much for replying. Could not ping the debian servers! I've
entered the ip address for the debian sites in the hosts an voila!
However, those are funky characters above... they worried me as well
and am not sure how and why they appear like that.

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