apt-get never upgrades anything??

[stuckym44]

whenever i run apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade, i get 0 files upgraded yada yada.

it's been this way for several days, so i know something is wrong. etch testing.

here's my /etc/apt/sources.list

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060314)]/ etch main
deb http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/debian/ etch main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main

... any help greatly appreciated!

matt

[bidi]

whenever i run apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade, i get 0 files upgraded yada yada.

You need to always run "apt-get update" before giving apt the upgrade or dist-upgrade option. It pretty much updates the package list on your computer to the newer one on the Debian server.

[stuckym44]

apt-get update
apt-get check
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get clean

every single time, in that order.

next?

[deanlinkous]

Then you are up to date or your mirror is slow to update itself. You might want to add the main debian repo to your sources and then try again.

[stuckym44]

been a week without any updated software, so i'm definitely not up to date.

would someone be kind enough to post the line for the main debian repository?

also, should it go before or after my mirror, or does it matter?

thanks.

matt

[deanlinkous]

Well maybe you got lucky and nothing on your system has been updated in a week. I mean it is just a week.

You might try commenting out your mirror, adding in the main repo, and trying it again.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main

Also, unless you want to use source for something you can comment out the -src entries also to save a little update time and bandwidth.

[Zelmo]

The cdrom line also isn't much use after the system is installed and you can get to the Internet.