Trouble installing tcpdump using apt-get

tripwire45 · 01-17-2005, 10:50 AM

Trying to install tcpdump on my debian box. I logged in as root and typed:

Code:

apt-get install tcpdump

Here's the response:

Code:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libpcap0.8
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpcap0.8 tcpdump
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 319kB of archives.
After unpacking 766kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu testing/main libpcap0.8 0.8.3-4 [81.7kB]
Err ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu testing/main libpcap0.8 0.8.3-4
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/pool/main/libp/libpcap0.8/libpcap0.8_0.8.3-4_i386.deb: No such file or directory  '
Get:2 ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu testing/main tcpdump 3.8.3-3 [238kB]
Fetched 238kB in 4s (50.8kB/s)
Failed to fetch ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/...8.3-4_i386.deb  Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/pool/main/libp/libpcap0.8/libpcap0.8_0.8.3-4_i386.deb: No such file or directory  '
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Where do I go from here?

zoso · 01-17-2005, 12:19 PM

Did you try what it said to try?

tripwire45 · 01-17-2005, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zoso
Did you try what it said to try?

Yes...but in each case, I get the same error message.

jlinkels · 01-17-2005, 10:24 PM

Usually you have to re-run apt-get update.

Or try to specify a different mirror in sources.list

Or wait until tomorrow. Sometimes an error slips in on the mirror sites. Maybe it sounds silly but that is my experience.

jlinkels

tripwire45 · 01-19-2005, 11:00 AM

re-running apt-get update again did the trick. Thanks.