[plug] West Australian Debian mirrors

[Bret Busby]

Hello.

After having installed Debian etch on a new computer, I have been unable 
to access the West Australian mirrors for Debian; the only mirrors that 
I have been able to access for Debian, are the mirror(s) at Debian, for 
security upgrades.

To add any aditional packages, I had to modify the sources.list file, 
to get aditional packages from the installation disk set.

The sources.list file contents are:

"cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
  deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 
20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main

  deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 
20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main

  deb http://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian/ stable main contrib 
non-free


  deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ stable/updates main contrib 
non-free
  deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/ stable main 
contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/ main contrib 
non-free

deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/pool/ main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
"

The "pool" entry came from searching the Debian packages web site for 
gFTP, where it gave that source.

Apart from the Debian security URL's, I have tried interchanging the 
strings "stable" and "etch", with the same results.

If I run apt-get update, the ouput is as follows.

"apt-get update
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD 
Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD 
Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch Release
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD 
Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD 
Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD 
Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD 
Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Get:1 http://ftp.uwa.edu.au stable Release.gpg [378B]
Hit http://ftp.uwa.edu.au stable Release
Ign http://ftp.uwa.edu.au stable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.uwa.edu.au stable/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.uwa.edu.au stable/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.uwa.edu.au stable/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.uwa.edu.au stable/contrib Packages
Hit http://ftp.uwa.edu.au stable/non-free Packages
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/updates Release
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable Release
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main Release
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main Release
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Get:2 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/main Packages
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/non-free Packages
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main/contrib Packages
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main/non-free Packages
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main/contrib Packages
Ign http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main/non-free Packages
Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
   404 Not Found
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
   404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages
   404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/main Packages
   404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
   404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org stable/non-free Packages
   404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main/contrib Packages
   404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main/non-free Packages
   404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main/contrib Packages
   404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org main/non-free Packages
   404 Not Found
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources
Fetched 2B in 3s (1B/s)
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/updates/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/dists/main/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/dists/main/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/pool/dists/main/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/pool/dists/main/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  404 Not Found
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org 
stable/updates/main Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.wa.au.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org 
stable/updates/contrib Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.wa.au.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org 
stable/updates/non-free Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.wa.au.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org 
stable/main Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.wa.au.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org 
stable/contrib Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.wa.au.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_dists_stable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org 
stable/non-free Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.wa.au.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_dists_stable_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org 
main/contrib Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.wa.au.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_dists_main_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org 
main/non-free Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.wa.au.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_dists_main_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org 
main/contrib Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.wa.au.debian.org_debian_pool_dists_main_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org 
main/non-free Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.wa.au.debian.org_debian_pool_dists_main_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
ones used instead.
"

In order to instal PINE 4.64 (the latest version of PINE that is 
"stable", as opposed to Alpine, that is "testing" (?) ), in the Debian 
package form, which was built using Debian 3.0, it would not instal 
using the current version of libssl, which is 0.9.8, and it required 
0.9.7, and the only way that I could find that, was using the 
installtion disks.

I think that I also required to use the installation disks, to instal 
gFTP, which I could not otherwise find, to instal.

Can someone please tell me what are the correct lines or paths, to be 
using in the sources.list file, so that I can access packages and 
updates across the Internet, other than being limited to security 
updates from Debian itself?

Thank you in anticipation.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

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  you'll know what the answer means."
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   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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