R Deepak wrote on Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:43:06PM +0530:
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| I also ftp'd to the mirror and verified that the files apt-get was
| trying to fetch were missing.
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well, if you didn't do 'update', the package file names in apt's mind
and those on the server wont match (assuming the server has deleted
old packages and that your package list is old).
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| I then used the mirrors.kernel.org mirror to get them.
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as in download the files manually and put it in
/var/cache/apt/archives/ ?
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| Maybe the person incharge of the mirror should fix this?
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*IF* I remember correctly owing to bandwidth constraints the iitm
archives are updated once in a week or so (IIRC). The right person to
answer would be [Dr?].prabhu or Dr.P.Sriram.
cheers,
-Suraj
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