[Slapt-get-user] Package retrieval error

Jason Woodward woodwardj at jaos.org
Fri Oct 7 12:26:56 EDT 2011


Hi Steven,

> Yet, when I try to install the package I get:
> 
> % slapt-get --install libreoffice
> Reading Package Lists...Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    libreoffice
> 0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not
upgraded.
> Need to get 141.4MB of archives.
> After unpacking 358.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
> 1/1 Get ftp://lion.pantheranet.com/ssaner/slackware-13.1/ libreoffice 
> 3.4.3_en_US-i586-1_SBo [141.4MB]...Failed to download: Remote file not
> found
> 
> 
> Note that the URL that slapt-get is trying to retrieve is incorrect. 
> There is a space before the package name and another space between the 
> name and the version.

Use --print-uris
  --print-uris	      print URIs only, do not download

The actual output you are quoting is truncated as to not take up a lot of
room.

Can you share the package source metafiles (PACKAGES.TXT* etc)?


take care,
jason
--
Jason Woodward


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