Hi!
I was trying to install debian through the net-inst cd. I
installed it fine. But kde and gnome are not getting installed. And
so are some others like gedit. The contrib and non-free folder in
ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian/dists/testing
is missing. Could this be a reason.
officer:/home/ganesh# apt-get update
Get:1 http://10.65.0.42 testing Release.gpg [197B]
Get:2 http://10.65.0.42 unstable Release.gpg [197B]
Get:3 http://10.65.0.42 testing Release [22.8kB]
Get:4 http://10.65.0.42 unstable Release [34.1kB]
Get:5 http://10.65.0.42 testing/main Packages [3552kB]
Err http://10.65.0.42 testing/contrib Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://10.65.0.42 testing/non-free Packages
404 Not Found
Get:6 http://10.65.0.42 unstable/main Packages [3741kB]
Hit http://10.65.0.42 unstable/contrib Packages
Hit http://10.65.0.42 unstable/non-free Packages
Fetched 7350kB in 1s (4525kB/s)
Failed to fetch
http://10.65.0.42/debian/dists/testing/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://10.65.0.42/debian/dists/testing/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
404 Not Found
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
Bye!
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Ganesh V
Undergraduate student,
Aerospace Engineering,
IIT Madras, Chennai-36.
My homepage --> http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/~ae03b007
