[ale] apt-get choking

Bjorn Dittmer-Roche bjorn at sccs.swarthmore.edu
Tue Apr 6 13:26:51 EDT 2004


On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Joe Knapka wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I booted my Debian machine this morning and ran "apt-cache search
> jdk". It responded with several dozen lines of stuff like
>
>  W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.debian.org woody Packages
>  - stat (2 No such file or directory).
>
> Is there a problem with the Debian servers, or is something wrong on
> my side? I haven't changed anything about the APT configuration, so
> I don't see why it would suddenly stop working.

I think apt-cache just uses your local cache of the repositories, so
the problem is on your end. I've never seen anything like that, though.

	bjorn



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