stupid apt problem

[Daniel Wittenberg]

I just decided to update my RH 9 laptop to fedora 9.0.93.  I've used
apt-rpm many times, so familiar with that, just never done an apt-get
dist-upgrade before.  So I download the Fedora apt RPM, install ok, but
try to apt-get update from any sites, and I get a lot of:
"Failed to fetch ftp://.... Size mismatch" errors

and of course then trying apt-get dist-upgrade fails miserably.  When
doing an apt-get dist-upgrade you put the version you want to upgrade
to, right?  (/pub/linux/fedora/fedora redhat/9.0.93/i386 os stable
updates)

I know this is probably something stupid...or is it easier to download
the .iso's and do it that way?  It seemed from the webpage the "proper"
way to do it was via apt so I thought I'd try.

Thanks,
Dan

[John Mizell]

you should just download
ftp://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/redhat-release-0.94-2.rpm from this or any ftp site with the test core files and then do up2date and it should load the updates for you.

John Mizell

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 22:13, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> I just decided to update my RH 9 laptop to fedora 9.0.93.  I've used
> apt-rpm many times, so familiar with that, just never done an apt-get
> dist-upgrade before.  So I download the Fedora apt RPM, install ok, but
> try to apt-get update from any sites, and I get a lot of:
> "Failed to fetch ftp://.... Size mismatch" errors
>
> and of course then trying apt-get dist-upgrade fails miserably.  When
> doing an apt-get dist-upgrade you put the version you want to upgrade
> to, right?  (/pub/linux/fedora/fedora redhat/9.0.93/i386 os stable
> updates)
>
> I know this is probably something stupid...or is it easier to download
> the .iso's and do it that way?  It seemed from the webpage the "proper"
> way to do it was via apt so I thought I'd try.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan

[Panu Matilainen]

Quoting Daniel Wittenberg :
> I just decided to update my RH 9 laptop to fedora 9.0.93.  I've used
> apt-rpm many times, so familiar with that, just never done an apt-get
> dist-upgrade before.  So I download the Fedora apt RPM, install ok, but
> try to apt-get update from any sites, and I get a lot of:
> "Failed to fetch ftp://.... Size mismatch" errors

That simply means that either
a) the packages on the repository are corrupt/not yet fully downloaded
b) download went bad (could be a proxy acting up or whatever)

Usually just re-running dist-upgrade will fix the situation (it'll continue the
download where it left off the last time, also in case of partially downloaded
packages)
> and of course then trying apt-get dist-upgrade fails miserably.  When
> doing an apt-get dist-upgrade you put the version you want to upgrade
> to, right?  (/pub/linux/fedora/fedora redhat/9.0.93/i386 os stable
> updates)

That looks ok otherwise.. BUT at this stage you shouldn't bother with 9.0.93
anymore, upgrade to Fedora Core 0.94 which is the second beta where 9.0.93 was
the first. So that'd be "<server+path> redhat/0.94/i386 os stable updates", for
the sites that have apt-enabled FC 0.94 repositories (well, fedora.us does now)
> I know this is probably something stupid...or is it easier to download
> the .iso's and do it that way?  It seemed from the webpage the "proper"
> way to do it was via apt so I thought I'd try.

You *can* do it with apt, yum or up2date but the "official" way is to upgrade
with anaconda.

[FEDORA] Re: stupid apt problem

[Daniel Wittenberg]

I poked around fedora.us, and I'm not seeing anything in terms of
documentation on this.  Am I blind?  I realize what anaconda is, so are
you saying off the CD's?  Not sure I understand.  It's also confusing on
the ftp site to see the older stuff as 9.0.93 and newer stuff with 0.94,
and yes, I realize what this is, just confusing for someone just getting
into this.  So can I just load up the severn iso's and apt-get from
there, or what does "upgrade with anacoda" mean to the fedora impaired?

Dan

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 02:18, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > I know this is probably something stupid...or is it easier to download
> > the .iso's and do it that way?  It seemed from the webpage the "proper"
> > way to do it was via apt so I thought I'd try.
>
> You *can* do it with apt, yum or up2date but the "official" way is to upgrade
> with anaconda.