apt-get won't work?

[bobtcowboy]

ok, so that subject is a slight exaggeration ;)

but seriously, I tried craig's Monster List, but that came up with a ton of errors... so I cut almost all of it out

now whenever I go to get something, it downloads, begins to install and setup, but then dies... and I can't access what it just installed

here's what it tells me:


/home/bill# apt-get install eterm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
eterm
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 243 not upgraded.
Need to get 358kB of archives. After unpacking 1106kB will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu unstable/main eterm 0.9.0-9 [358kB]
Fetched 358kB in 8s (43.8kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package eterm.
(Reading database ... 35047 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking eterm (from .../eterm_0.9.0-9_i386.deb) ...
Setting up eterm (0.9.0-9) ...

W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://kde.tdyc.com potato/beta Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/kde.tdyc.com_pub_kde_debian_dists_potato_beta_bina ry-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://kde.tdyc.com woody/qt1apps Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/kde.tdyc.com_pub_kde_debian_dists_woody_qt1apps_bi nary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
Rohan:/home/bill#


so why is it doing this? I haven't added anything to the list... only the TDYC KDE section and the /~Branden Xfree4 debs are uncommented

also, how can I check what version of Xfree86 I have/am running? How about finding out what version of Debian? I installed Progeny RC2, which I think installs Woody... but then I upgraded a lot of stuff... so is there a static point where I cross from potato to woody to sid? or is it basically just how much of my software is cutting edge?

Thanks,
Bill

[JBrian]

Your apt is working... The errors at the end are telling you that there are specific files or directories that were not where apt was expecting to find them, so it just moved on. Eterm should be installed, try running "Eterm" from an xterm prompt. The TDYC KDE that you added is the site thats giving you errors, if it continues I would just comment them out and try someone else.

uname -a will give you various information about your system.

On my X402, XFree86 -version gives the version and some other info.. Its probably different for X-3.3.*
~Jeff

[ 01 April 2001: Message edited by: JBrian ]

[bobtcowboy]

thanks for the reply...

unfortunately though, eterm doesn't work. typing eterm at a prompt (as regular user or root) returns a:

bash: eterm: command not found

*looking for eterm on my machine*

ok... here's a eterm executable at usr/bin that runs... but it won't run in any way except clicking the excutable in my kde window.

*checking $PATH for /usr/bin*

yup, its in the path for normal user and root.

so... uhh... I'll just throw a big "WTF?" out there.

also, hehe, when I do uname -a, it returns:

Linux Rohan 2.2.18 #1 Tue Feb 27 10:33:03 EST 2001 i686 unknown

thats
<OS> <Server> <Kernel> <Compile #> <Date> <architecture> and, I'm gonna guess that the last one that is 'unknown' is my x server version? *gulp*

any more ideas?

Bill

[JBrian]

The command to run eterm is Eterm, notice the capital e.
At the prompt run: "XFree86 -version" and that should tell you your version of X, if it doesn't, you probably have 3.3.6 and the command is different (X --version or X --help ??, I can't remember).
I'm not that up on what release runs what kernel (pretty new to Debian :D)but my potato runs 2.2.18pre21 so it seems like what you have is (somewhere around) the potato release kernel and maybe some newer software. Some other debianite could probably elaborate on this much better than me. HTH
~Jeff