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On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:20:11PM -0500, Bill Horne wrote: > Thanks for reading this. I need help to solve a problem with Debian > packages. > > I used Aptitude to add the GNU compiler to a new Debian Etch install. I > pushed the wrong button, because it took a day to download 5GB worth of > archives, and it installed a lot of kernels I can't use and games I > don't want, etc. Erm, yes, that was amazing. > I think I'll have to reinstall, since the operation for which I need the > compiler (adding Intel drivers for the 82865G chipset) won't work with > the current setup. In future -- try 'apt-get install build-essentials module-assistant' > I copied the /var/cache/apt/archives directory to another machine and > modified the sources.list file on the target, but doing apt-get update > produces this result: > > Get:8 ftp://192.168.10.90 etch/main Packages > Err ftp://192.168.10.90 etch/main Packages > Unable to fetch file, server said > '/var/cache/apt/archives/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No > such file or directory. ' Sounds like there's an FTP proxy in the way. > Now, the question: is it worth my time to construct a Debian archive of > the packages that I downloaded? No, but it's worth keeping them. What are you trying to do, now? -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.
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