Enable APT failing

Forum: Apt-get
Topic: Enable APT failing
started by: Jerramy

Posted by Jerramy on Mar. 08 2006,15:12

One of the things which caught my eye right away was that DSL could be set up as a Debian installation. So I installed DSL to the harddrive, and followed the directions for getting GNU/Debian compatibility set up.

(Forgive me, I am away from the computer which is giving me problems, so this is all from memory...)

First, select "Upgrade to GNU Tools". Downloading the 10 MB file. Great. Downloaded. No problems.

Next, select "Enable APT". Downloading some other file. Connected fine. Downloaded the whole file.

"Download Error."

And that's all she wrote. I have no idea what went wrong. Did it a second time. Same story.

I was hoping that perhaps someone has encountered this problem (Oh wait, do I have to be logged in as root?), or perhaps one of you Linux gurus (which I am massively NOT) can point me to some log file somewhere which might indicate to me what the hell went wrong...

Thanks all,
Jerramy

Posted by pr0f3550r on Mar. 08 2006,18:02

Are you behind a proxy server?
Anyway, try to set a different mirror, for example switch to ftp rather than http. It looks like a connection rather than software problem.
Or use wget.

Posted by Jerramy on Mar. 09 2006,01:00

Quote (pr0f3550r @ Mar. 08 2006,13:02)

Are you behind a proxy server?
Anyway, try to set a different mirror, for example switch to ftp rather than http. It looks like a connection rather than software problem.
Or use wget.

Dur...

Not to sound like a complete moron, but "I just pushed the dern buttony thingy, I didn't see any such option..."

I assume that the button links to a script. (Okay, I know I'm now getting into a whole 'nuther topic, but..) Where do I find the links that given buttons point to, or (Ooo Ooo!) how do I completely change the menu to say and point to whatever the hell I want?

I know this falls under RTFM, but I'm a complete newbie when it comes to X GUI management.

Thanks.

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 09 2006,06:01

You can manually download it using Firefox, Dillo, or wget from this link:

< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....pkg.dsl >

After saving the file, open emelfm, highlight the file and push the MYDSL button inside emelfm window.

Posted by Jerramy on Mar. 09 2006,15:25

Thank You!

Posted by Jerramy on Mar. 10 2006,17:53

Okay, apparently the first time I downloaded dsl-dpkg.dsl, it made a 0 byte file. Every other time after that, it created dsl-dpkg.dsl.1 dsl-dpkg.dsl.2 dsl-dpkg.dsl.3 ... They all downloaded fine, but the script choked. So I renamed one of the good ones, stripping off the number, and opened it (in emelfm). Seemed to work...

I can now run dselect (yay!). An attempt to install wine met with a colossal failure (libc6 wrong version, because it's a specifc DSL version, and about 20 billion things depended on it, so I was afraid to change it...) but whatever, I'll worry about it later.

Trying to get Synaptic working however, was even more frustrating. It wanted to downgrade my apt version, somewhere along the line, it choked on it's own vomit, and smoke poured out the side of my laptop (well, not really, but anyway).

I think at this point, I'm going to try reinstalling, and go straight to synaptic (or should I do the nifty "Upgrade to GNU" first?)

Posted by brianw on Mar. 10 2006,20:05

I have done it several times and all I do is enable synaptic. This seems to work fine for me. I don't think I have upgraded to gnu utils (this may explain why I can't install some things). My advice (from using HD installs exclusively) is to enable synaptic first then if you need to upgrade to gnu utils after you can.