On Thursday 27 August 2020 08:05:17 Slávek Banko wrote:
On Thursday 27 of August 2020 16:40:40 William Morder via trinity-users
wrote:
Okay guys, so I am stumped and confuzzled.
I just did an upgrade to Devuan Beowulf (= Debian Buster), and everything went fine; except once up and running, I couldn't download more than a few of Trinity's packages.
After trying different repositories, and playing with my sources list, I managed to do just a bit better, then I saved the day with some extreme voodoo using about config [*I meant to say, apt-get* ... writing on auto-pilot] (scrolling through the manpages to find something that work). I ended up getting enough the Trinity packages to download by using --ignore-hold and dselect-upgrade options. I even searched out the links to deb packages on the developers' repositories, and downloaded them with wget, so that I could try forcing install using dpkg.
Now at least (at last) I do have a working system which is a reasonable facsimile of my previous one, but it does seem like it ought to have been easier. For about the past three days now, I've lived in the command-line.
Also I would like recommendations for a firewall that displays active connections and rules, etc., like the old Firestarter used to do. I catch all kinds of problems by noticing activity on my firewall, but now I cannot seem to find one that displays active connections, and Firestarter can no longer be hacked to make it work on a newer system.
Thanks for any advice or comments,
Bill
Hi Bill,
what problems do you observe? Do packages report incorrect size / checksum after download? Or do you get a 404 response? Or something else?
Lately, I've been seeing more often that probably due to a malfunctioning transparent proxy somewhere at the provider, I'm getting corrupted and apt lists or damaged packages. And I have to download them repeatedly and repeatedly and... For such cases, it usually helps me to set up apt to know that the broken proxy is in the way:
Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth "0"; Acquire::http::No-Cache=True; Acquire::BrokenProxy=true;
Cheers
Ordinarily I would always use a proxy -- and have no problems at all -- but tork-trinity, tor, etc., are some of the packages that will not download.
The packages are listed when I do apt-cache search, etc., but then when I tried to download, it would ask for dependencies that seemed like they were for Bullseye. So then I tried using Sid, Bullseye, unstable, etc., but finally went back to vanilla Devuan Beowulf, and Buster for the Trinity repositories. When I ran Jessie, I would always use your PSB repo, and now I also have tried PTB repo, but it kept saying I needed 11.0 Buster packages. So I went back to the Trinity ppa repo (I believe it's Tim's or a mirror thereof), along with vanilla Devuan (pkgmaster, etc.), and then I played with dpkg and apt-get as already described.
Now it's working, but I still have problems finding or downloading packages, even though I see them listed.
Bill
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