[plug] Debian Woody -- installing Gnome

[Sol]

Hi Daniel,

I've had similar problems recently with one of the non-standard Debian 
sources:
http://download.au.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/woody ./

It sometimes updates and sometimes doesn't. My guess is that these sources are 
getting hit fairly heavily and are denying some requests due to the workload 
(?) or are simply not functioning reliably like most mirrors do most of the 
time. Either way, I recommend patience. Try again later. If it doesn't start 
working in a day or two the problem might be at your end.

There may be a mirror of these sources too. Have you checked out 
www.apt-get.org?

regards,
sol

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 02:09 pm, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> Hi,
> I've tried to insall Gnome 2 for Debian, following the instructions on
> http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html however I run in to the
> following errors,
> workstation:~# apt-get update
> Hit http://people.debian.org woody/gnome2 Packages
> Ign http://people.debian.org woody/gnome2 Release
> Err http://people.debian.org woody/gnome2 Sources
>   Error reading from server Remote end closed connection
> Ign http://people.debian.org woody/gnome2 Release
> Failed to fetch
> http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian/dists/woody/gnome2/source/Sources
> Error reading from server Remote end closed connection
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.
>
> Can someone shed some light as to what I may be doing wrong, or what I can
> do to fix this error?
>
> Regards,
> Daniel