Am 04. Jan, 2006 schwätzte Victor Odhner so:

> I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend.  I started with the full version 
> of
> KANOTIX-2005-03 (I just missed the release of 04).  This has gone very
> smoothly and I'm quite pleased with the results so far.
>
> I've run into two problems in trying to update the software, and since I
> have very little Debian experience I need some advice.
>
> When I did apt-get update, and again when I did apt-get install, I got
> warnings about indeces not found.  Apparently some were found,
> and the upgrade downloaded something like 19 MB of stuff.  The
> upgrade returned an error code (1).  The full output is posted at
> <http://members.cox.net/vodhner/upgrade.log>.

Looks like there were probs getting the package lists.

Run apt-get update again as Patrick suggests. That might fix it.

You might also want to switch to .us based servers if your friend is here.

> My questions on this are:  (a) should I configure something so that the
> missing files or repositories will be found?  (b) did anything actually get
> installed or upgraded?  (c) how do I complete or restart this update?

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

You might need apt-get -f install.

> Second problem was with a "klik" install of Firefox 1.5.  It failed,

Dunno what that is.

ciao,

der.hans
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