[nzlug] Packages unavailable?

[Jim Cheetham]

On 30/05/07, Roland Hill <rolandh at ak.planet.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> I recently did an upgrade of 40 odd packages, but the following 5 keep
> coming up with "404 Not Found".


That often happens if you have not updated recently - i.e. your local index
has a reference to a file that has been superceded in the repository (due to
an upgrade of that package)

And indeed there's been a new kernel recently :-)

So, apt-get update regularly, especially before apt-get upgrade

As an aside, there's a nice convenience package "apticron" that will update
daily, and email you information about the waiting upgrades. Not the only
way of doing the job - in fact I quite like "apt-get update && apt-get
--download upgrade" as that'll do all the bandwidth hit over night, leaving
me to approve the actual installation later.

-jim