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I just installed sarge 3.1 r2 last night and I'm trying to install multimedia packages and updating, It seems forever to get packages and I then get the message I ...
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    Seems forever to update?

    I just installed sarge 3.1 r2 last night and I'm trying to install multimedia packages and updating, It seems forever to get packages and I then get the message I need to updateafter all that?
    W: you may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
    E: Some index files failed to down, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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    hmm.... if you might try editing your
    Code:
    /etc/apt/sources.list
    to get some new servers
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vergil83
    hmm.... if you might try editing your
    Code:
    /etc/apt/sources.list
    to get some new servers
    Hi, Can you tell which new servers and were to find them?
    Thanks. fvs

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    for me
    Code:
    deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
    is working fine

    A server closer to your location, will most likely be the fastest.
    http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
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