On Saturday 03 October 2015 00:28:39 Slávek Banko
wrote:
On Friday 02 of October 2015 19:47:11 Lisi Reisz
wrote:
I have just tried to install TDE, but have been
told that Slávek's
repository is not accessible. ??? I'll try Tim's for now.
Lisi
Now I tried it and the web server appears to be normally available. I
tested the availability of packages for Jessie and apt source seems to be
fine.
Yes, Slávek, I'm sorry. I managed to install with Tim's repositories, and,
once I could see a bit, there was a comma instead of a full stop at one
point in your repository in my sorces.list. I had checked and checked it,
but i just couldn't see it!! :-(
I was lucky that Tim's was OK. It very rarely is. It is inaccessible
again this morning.
This is an ongoing problem that I have with spreading the word about TDE.
Tim's repository is almost normally not available for us (in England? On
the South Coast? Everyone I know who tries to use TDE!), and it is hard to
find anything else to use. When I asked recently I was told just to use
Tim's and it would chose the best mirror. That is no use if Tim's is
unavailable.
I always say just to use Slávek's. Yesterday was the first time that
Slávek's has appeared to be unavailable, and in fact it was. It is very
reliable, but hard to find for someone happening on the website.
The error message that I am currently getting (it has been alright on this
particular computer for the last few days since I set it up when I wrote
the other day and asked about mirrors) is under my signature.
Can we at least localise this problem. It has been there ever since I have
been using TDE and makes installing TDE difficult. Does it apply anywhere
other than the south of England? Once we have localised it, can someone
help me solve it? Perhaps we need to find a main mirror this side of the
Atlantic.
And meanwhile what mirror does anyone other than Mike (thanks for your
advice, Mike, when I asked a week ago. But as you can see it hasn't
helped) suggest for 3.5.13.2 now I can't use a nice reliable Slávek one for
it? I currently can't connect to the web archive (I was going to link to
my email about this of a week ago) so you won't even get this for a bit!
One person, who sets computers up for "old people" and decided that Unity
was too resource hungry for old computers, has abandoned TDE (which was
front runner) in favour of LXDE largely because of this problem. It is
really very tedious to be unable to install/update time after time while
you wait for whatever gremlin is amusing himself to go away. I just said
to use Slávek's repository, but he very reasonably pointed out that it
doesn't say so here:
I was going to link to the page on how to get TDE. It is unavailable.
There is obviously a larger problem at the moment. But the update problem
is ongoing.
There must be a reliable mirror somewhere that can be reached from England.
If not, give me a mentor who will help with advice, because I don't know
where or how to start, and I'll try to find you one. And anyhow I'll start
asking people how to do it.
The best, of course, would be to be in Debian's repostitories, but we
haven't the resources for that. :-(
Perhaps we are just too small and need to find a millionnaire?
Lisi
Error message for update:
W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/d
ists/wheezy/Release.gpg: Could not connect to
ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:80
(192.119.205.243). - connect (113: No route to host)
W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1
3/debian/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg: Unable to connect to
ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http:
W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/d
ists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB: Unable to connect to
ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http:
W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/d
ists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en: Unable to connect to
ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http:
W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1
3/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB: Unable to connect to
ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http:
W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1
3/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en: Unable to connect to
ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http:
W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/d
ists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/Packages: Unable to connect to
ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http:
W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/d
ists/wheezy/main/binary-i386/Packages: Unable to connect to
ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http:
W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1
3/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/Packages: Unable to connect to
ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http:
W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1
3/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-i386/Packages: Unable to connect to
ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http:
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
Sorry, I did not realize that you do not have in mind the Preliminary stable
builds, but my 3.5.13.x repository on the PPA. Unfortunately it is not
available on mirrors. However, it is very consistent with the final 3.5.13.2,
which is available on the official mirrors.
...so the problem comes back to the unavailable of primary server during the
weekend and discussion about vps.
--
Slávek