Here is what happens after I got most of the updates, and after I ran apt-get upgrade and got all 90 something packages. Now when I run apt-get update this happens. apt-get update Get:1 http://people.ecsc.co.uk redhat-9-i386 release [1794B] Fetched 1794B in 10s (178B/s) Hit http://people.ecsc.co.uk redhat-9-i386/gnome pkglist Hit http://people.ecsc.co.uk redhat-9-i386/gnome release Hit http://people.ecsc.co.uk redhat-9-i386/extras pkglist Hit http://people.ecsc.co.uk redhat-9-i386/extras release Err http://people.ecsc.co.uk redhat-9-i386/dep pkglist 404 Not Found Ign http://people.ecsc.co.uk redhat-9-i386/dep release Failed to fetch http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/downloads/apt/redhat-9-i386/base/ pkglist.dep 404 Not Found Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Release file did not contain checksum information for http://people.ecsc.co.u k/~matt/downloads/apt/redhat-9-i386/base/pkglist.dep W: Release file did not contain checksum information for http://people.ecsc.co.u k/~matt/downloads/apt/redhat-9-i386/base/release.dep W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. And when I run apt-get install gnome, I receive apt-get install gnome Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package gnome has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list However the following packages replace it: gnome-utils gnome-media libcapplet0 control-center E: Package gnome has no installation candidate I humbly declare that I am doing something wrong, so can someone please correct me. Thank you, Sina
