apt-get update problems

[Mustang64]

I've been trying to install kscreensaver. One of the suggestions I found in another thread was to use "apt-get update". So this is what I've done -

start a shell
enter su
enter apt-get update

Things run along OK for a short time then I get a, seemingly, never ending string of

Get:8 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de unstable/non-free Release
Ign ftp://ftp.gwdg.de unstable/non-free Release
Err http://ftp2.de.debian.org stable/main Packages
  Could not connect to ftp2.de.debian.org:80 (195.71.9.196), connection timed out
Err http://ftp2.de.debian.org stable/main Release
  Could not connect to ftp2.de.debian.org:80 (195.71.9.196), connection timed out
Err http://ftp2.de.debian.org stable/contrib Packages

My "etc/apt/sources.list" reads

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.

# Security updates for "stable"
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free

# Stable
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Sources
deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Testing
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

# Sources
deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

# Unstable
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Sources
deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Experimental
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free

# Mozilla
deb http://non-us.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./

# GNOME 2.0
# deb http://www.gnome.de/debian/ ./

# KDE 3
# deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde stable main
# deb-src http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde stable main
# We get packages from testing/unstable for now

# cdbakeoven
# deb http://coyote.asoc.euitt.upm.es/mud/debian/ ./

# XFree 4.2/4.3
deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages sid/i386/
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages sid/source/
# deb http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386 ./
# deb-src http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/source ./

# Java
deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free
deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free
# deb http://people.debian.org/~sgybas/jdk13

# LyX & others (now in debian/unstable)
# deb ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian unofficial/
# deb-src ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian unofficial/

# Evolution
#deb ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/debian stable main
#deb-src ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/debian stable main

# Blades Repository (pppoeconf & co)
deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./

# Wine CVS snapshot
# deb http://people.debian.org/~andreas/debian wine main
# deb-src http://people.debian.org/~andreas/debian wine main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main

I beleive this is the "default" list from the HD install, Knoppix 3.3

Help! What have I done wrong?

[OErjan]

according to erlier posts you could change:

http://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/whatever

to:

http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/whatever

that is remove the 2 after http://ftp and try again

[pulsar]

Could not connect to http://ftp2.de.debian.org means that server is not up to date anymore. Change in your sourcelist (as root) using an editor that adress in http://ftp.de.debian.org. Then you probably will be able to update with apt-get.

[Mustang64]

Thanks I think I got it now. Had to do a

emacs /etc/apt/sources.list

changed all the

//ftp2.de

to

//ftp.de

and ren

apt-get update

one more time...


thanks for all your help

[PROhan]

well the more proper way to do this... i think
is to run..

apt-spy
apt-get update
apt-get install base-config
apt-setup


once you have apt-setup you can just run that to update your mirrors.. apt-spy will do it too but does it a lot slower...

one more thing... you'll have to download apt-spy first.. you can get as a .deb and do a dpkg -i for it or you can use the kpackage manager under the kmenu>system>kpackage

[ibrewale]

Just a quick question.
I want to go this route (apt-spy). I have installed apt-spy already, but when running apt-spy (as root) I get a list of the options to go with apt-spy (i.e. -d distribution, -c config, etc).
Excuse my newbieness, but how do I get apt-spy to output to /etc/apt/sources.list?

Thanks for the help you've given already.

Jerry

well the more proper way to do this... i think
is to run..

apt-spy
apt-get update
apt-get install base-config
apt-setup


once you have apt-setup you can just run that to update your mirrors.. apt-spy will do it too but does it a lot slower...

one more thing... you'll have to download apt-spy first.. you can get as a .deb and do a dpkg -i for it or you can use the kpackage manager under the kmenu>system>kpackage

[PROhan]

you know that happened to me too.... and i couldnt figure out why it was happening but try apt-spy update... i dont remember that working for me either..

so i did a dpkg -P apt-spy

then reinstalled it... try using the package given on debian's site (because that's what I used)

[ibrewale]

you know that happened to me too.... and i couldnt figure out why it was happening but try apt-spy update... i dont remember that working for me either..

so i did a dpkg -P apt-spy

then reinstalled it... try using the package given on debian's site (because that's what I used)

Thanks PROhan, I'll give that a shot tonight when I get home.
Thanks

Jerry

[PROhan]

hmm ok screw apt-spy if it didnt work

just get apt-setup from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/base-config

and dpkg -i it...[/code]