Re: [TCLUG:19594] apt-get errors

[John Hawley <jhawley@bgea.org>]

Thanks to everyone who responded to this one.  I've reinstalled the os and its
all working right now.  I'm 95% certain the problem was something in the /var
tree.  Either I lost some files or directory perms got mixed  up.  I had other
problems with programs that used the /var/cache/... directory.  I was going to
do a chmod -R 777 on /var before I rebuilt out of curiosity, but I went and
forgot.
-jh

"Kevin R. Bullock" wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, John Hawley wrote:
>
> > As I mentioned in the original post that I did do an 'apt-get update'.
> > Within the space of an hour (read your msg, Ben), I did the update and the
> > install on two similiar machines and one worked and the other didn't.  Oh,
> > well, looks like I majorly fudged one system.
>
> This one probably isn't your fault. A few 404 errors from apt-get *does*not*
> mean that the system is corrupted. It simply means that the package that apt
> requested isn't on the mirror you're using.
>