On Saturday 26 July 2003 4:47 pm, Richard Bos wrote:
Op zaterdag 26 juli 2003 21:36, schreef Franklin Maurer:
Anyone else having troubles with apt today? I tried to download packages and got a large amount of failed to retrieve error messages, I just tried to apt-get update and it says ... Could not connect to ftp.gwdg.de:21 (134.76.11.100). - connect (111 Connection refused)
Franklin,
there is no =the= apt server.... http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/repos.html and look for suse.
Try: http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/MIRROR.suse/apt/SuSE/8.2-i386/examples /sources.list.FTP or ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.2-i386/ examples/sources.list.FTP
Thanks Richard and Ben, I didn't know if there was a problem with my sources.list or "a" apt repositiory. :-) I always have problems with definitive articles, but that's a story for another time. It seems that it was a combination of the two. My entries for mirrors.mathematik and uni-erlangen.de were lacking a few entries. I just went on to the mathematik server and it seems it's a full mirror not the limited mirror that i thought it was. Since mathematik and ftp.gwdg.de are identical this brings a few questions to mind. Are the mirrors designed to speed up the downloads, by allowing packages to be downloaded from three servers at one time, rather than waiting for the ftp.gwdg.de server for every package? Or is it more for redundancy, like in this situation where I should have disabled ftp.gwdg.de in settings > repositories and been able to continue my downloading? Also does the order that the repositories are listed in sources.list matter? or does synaptic / apt choose the fastest server, just take turns between the servers, or simply use the first server in the list for the majority of the packages? TIA -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro