Re: FC4 and apt

From: Matteo Corti (corti_at_inf.ethz.ch)
Date: 06/21/05


Date: 21 Jun 2005 14:39:29 +0100

On 2005-06-21, Laurent Rahuel <lrahuel.notgood@voila.fr> wrote:
> Matteo Corti wrote:
>
> Hi I updated my source.list file but I always get this error when trying to
> use apt :
>
> jade apt # apt-get update
> Fetching list of repositories/mirrors...
> E: Failed to fetch mirror list file:
>
> Sounds like there's something broken with apt.
>
> Any idea ??
>

Yes, the first time apt runs it tries to download the list of mirrors (which
is not yet available). You can add
  Apt::State::FirstRun "false";
to your apt.conf file

Cheers,

Matteo