From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 23:09:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC03106564A for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:09:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2EE8FC16 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:09:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B88BDC34; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 15:09:45 -0800 (PST) To: Bruce Cran In-Reply-To: <20101107140353.00005ef0@unknown> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:09:45 -0800 Message-ID: <31957.1289171385@tristatelogic.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody know apt-get ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:09:47 -0000 In message <20101107140353.00005ef0@unknown>, you wrote: >On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 08:52:00 -0500 >Chris Brennan wrote: > >> I am going to take a stab in the dark here and suggest that some sort >> of db needs to be built for apt ... clues in the part /var/db...... >> (man apt-get?) > >"apt-get update" Well, um, not having anything really to lose, I su'd to root and tried the above command. The resulting output does not look encouraging: % apt-get update Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg [198B] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release [39.8kB] Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/contrib Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/non-free Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Sources [1036kB] Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Sources [4217B] Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/contrib Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/non-free Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Fetched 1080kB in 7s (151kB/s) Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-freebsd-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/restricted/binary-freebsd-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/contrib/binary-freebsd-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/non-free/binary-freebsd-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/contrib/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/non-free/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80] Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release: Couldn't access keyring: 'No such file or directory' W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_restricted_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/contrib Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_contrib_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/non-free Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_non-free_binary-freebsd-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.