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Tony.B
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by Tony.B » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:12 am
My apologies if this has already been dealt with. I've read lots & lots but can't find the right answers.
Today I received this error message:
I looked at the
Update Pack Info and have this message:
Your system is pointing to the latest 'Linux Mint Debian Latest' repository
Any assistance, as always, would be gratefully appreciated.
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kc1di
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by kc1di » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:40 am
Tony.B wrote: My apologies if this has already been dealt with. I've read lots & lots but can't find the right answers.
Today I received this error message:
I looked at the
Update Pack Info and have this message:
Your system is pointing to the latest 'Linux Mint Debian Latest' repository
Any assistance, as always, would be gratefully appreciated.
this usually happens when apt-get can not access the repository server. It could be that the server was down for a time and will come back soon.
try going to a terminal and typing
if you get the same error we will go from there.
Which version of mint are you using mint lmde?
Tony.B
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by Tony.B » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:50 am
Thanks for the prompt reply, kc1di.
kc1di wrote: Which version of mint are you using mint lmde?
Yes, I'm using LMDE.
Here is the output of
sudo apt-get update :
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[sudo] password for tony:
Err http://www.debian.linuxmint.com testing InRelease
Err http://www.debian.linuxmint.com testing Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'www.debian.linuxmint.com'
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing InRelease
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates InRelease
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian InRelease
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release.gpg [197 B]
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/contrib i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Get:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release [12.2 kB]
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/contrib TranslationIndex
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free TranslationIndex
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/non-free i386 Packages
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/contrib TranslationIndex
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/non-free TranslationIndex
Get:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main i386 Packages [12.6 kB]
Get:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream i386 Packages [5,208 B]
Get:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import i386 Packages [20.4 kB]
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import TranslationIndex
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream TranslationIndex
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/contrib Translation-en_GB
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free Translation-en_GB
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_GB
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_GB
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/updates/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import Translation-en_GB
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import Translation-en
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main Translation-en
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream Translation-en_GB
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream Translation-en
Fetched 50.6 kB in 4s (10.8 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia/dists/testing/InRelease
W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia/dists/testing/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'www.debian.linuxmint.com'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Unfortunately I'm going to be offline for a few hours after posting this message, so please don't think I'm ignoring any offers of help
Thanks in advance,
Tony
zerozero
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by zerozero » Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:03 am
Tony,
and replace the debian multimedia entry in there with
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deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
(yours has as extra www so is an non-existing repo)
save the file, close and update and dist-upgrade (now it should be fine)
squeezy
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by squeezy » Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:03 am
There's no such server as
http://www.debian.linuxmint.com
Your sources should look like this for a standard LMDE install.
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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
Change "latest" to "incoming" if you want to test the upcoming Update Pack 4.
squeezy
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by squeezy » Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:05 am
D'oh!!
kc1di
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by kc1di » Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:13 am
zerozero beat me to it but his suggestion should fix the problem.
Cheers
Tony.B
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by Tony.B » Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:16 pm
Thank you, zerozero .
Thank you, squeezy .
And thank you kc1di .
Yes, it all worked fine. I hadn't noticed the "www" which somehow crept in there - senile dementia no doubt.
And, squeezy, thanks also for the heads-up on how to obtain Update Pack 4 - but I think I'll play safe and stay with "latest" rather than "incoming". My penguin isn't ready to throw away its L-plates yet.
Thanks again to all of you.
Cheers,
Tony
zerozero
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by zerozero » Sun Mar 11, 2012 7:18 pm
Tony,
you 're welcome, glad it's working for you now.
squeezy wrote: D'oh!!
and again