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[Day Brown <daybrown AT hypertech.net>]

James Miller wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Day Brown wrote:
> 
> > > > Debian seemed to have a really good idea with apt-get, but
> > > > now I find their servers are down,
> > >
> > > Still down, are they?
> > yes, apparently taken out with malice aforethought, perhaps motivated by
> > the profits out outfits like Microsoft which are threatened.
> >
> > > > so it is totally useless.
> > >
> > > You give up too easily.  Surely there are Debian mirrors that
> > > are still functioning.
> > I'd be grateful for a link. I did get a note from their newslist today,
> > that some servers are back online, and that they expect to have the
> > problem solved soon. But as you might see, I have other distros to use
> > in the meantime.
> >
> Start here: http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full . 
I wasnt too sure about what I needed, the docs on the mirrors I saw
werent much.
I downloaded kannel, the latest sarge testing release, thot I'd do my
bit.
but all I really ended up with was a long list of absent dependancies.
> For a list of
> alternate apt sites (packages provided by interested parties but not
> necessarily included in the main distribution) look at
> http://www.apt-get.org .  I'd say you could use a tutorial on apt-get as
> well.  Take a look at:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html#contents .
I did. Thanx. Informative. But what I think I wanted, was a new kernel.
not mentioned.
It looks like that page was organized around the idea of installing a
whole new release.
All I'm trying to do is upgrade to a newer browser, which needs a newer
kernel, which needs a newer set of dependancies....

> Btw, I think the thing that's "down" that you keep referencing is simply a
> page that lists which packages are available.  apt-get doesn't use that
> page:  that's just for people to view so they can see if a package they
> want is available, or maybe someone who wants to install Debian also wants
> to know what's included.  If you have apt on your system you don't even
> need that page: you just issue "apt-cache search nameofprog" from the
> command line and all relevant results will be returned from the apt
> database.
apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4.*
on the terminal got me "couldnt stat source package..."
apt-cache search http://www.debian.org/kernel*
"couldnt stat source...." 

I'll prolly end up waiting until debian.org is back online. Meanwhile,
I'm trying to setup another drive on the system to boot dos then do
loadlin of BL...