I have installed apt 0.5.5cnc6-fr0.rh80.1.i386 and synaptic on my redhat 8.
But the update does not perform and give error :
"Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead."
I have checked the internet connection . It is fine.
I have following repositories in my /etc/apt/sources.list
rpm
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ redhat/8.0/i386 os updates freshrpms
rpm
http://apt.freshrpms.net/ redhat/8.0/en/i386 os updates freshrpms
rpm
http://apt.au.freshrpms.net/ redhat/8.0/en/i386 os updates freshrpms
rpm
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/apt/ redhat/8.0/en/i386 os stable freshrpms updates
I can connect to above sites thru browser and see the rpms there.
Pls. tell me whts wrong with apt on my machine
Then later I removed all the repositories but apt.freshrpms.net.
It gives me a following error
"[root@localhost root]# apt-get update
Err
http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386 release
Temporary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Err
http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os pkglist
Temporary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Err
http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os release
Temporary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Err
http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates pkglist
Temporary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Err
http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates release
Temporary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Err
http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms pkglist
Temporary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Err
http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms release
Temporary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Failed to fetch
http://apt.freshrpms.net/redhat/8.0/...6/base/release Tempor
ary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Failed to fetch
http://apt.freshrpms.net/redhat/8.0/...ase/pkglist.os Tem
porary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Failed to fetch
http://apt.freshrpms.net/redhat/8.0/...ase/release.os Tem
porary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Failed to fetch
http://apt.freshrpms.net/redhat/8.0/...kglist.updates
Temporary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Failed to fetch
http://apt.freshrpms.net/redhat/8.0/...elease.updates
Temporary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Failed to fetch
http://apt.freshrpms.net/redhat/8.0/...kglist.freshrp
ms Temporary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Failed to fetch
http://apt.freshrpms.net/redhat/8.0/...elease.freshrp
ms Temporary failure resolving 'apt.freshrpms.net'
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Release files for some repositories could not be retrieved or authenticated. Such repositories are being ignored.
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.