[plug] Debian Woody -- installing Gnome

[Daniel Pearson]

Sol,
It seems the mirror i'm using atm, is the only one there is for that
package.. so not sure what I should do.

Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sol" <sol at autonomon.net>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Debian Woody -- installing Gnome


> 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
>
>
>