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Month: February 2012

Re: [trinity-users] Mirrors?

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:32:12 -0600
>> On Saturday 25 February 2012 15:44:56 Slávek Banko wrote:
>>> On Saturday 25 of February 2012 16:08:28 Lisi wrote:
>>> > On Saturday 25 February 2012 14:30:03 David Hare wrote:
>>> > > If any errors,try again later.
>>> >
>>> > Erm...  How much later?  I tried several times yesterday evening and
>>> > again this morning.  I had to give the computer back to its owner!
>>> >
>>> > Is this a regular occurrence, and do I need to come to the conclusion
>>> > that Trinity is only usable when I am installing for members of my
>>> own
>>> > household?
>>> >
>>> > I have sadly gradually been coming to the conclusion that Trinity is
>>> > probably a DE for geeks.  This is not a complaint; I think that you
>>> are
>>> > all wonderful and am full of admiration for what you are doing.  But
>>> I
>>> am
>>> > beginning to wonder whether I should be trying to use it.  I don't
>>> use
>>> > Sid (Debian unstable) because I could not get myself out of trouble.
>>> > Perhaps on the same logic, I ought not to use Trinity. :-(
>>> >
>>> > Lisi
>>>
>>> When I got error 403 when downloading packages, so I have to apt source
>>> instead of "general" ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net gave a
>>> specific
>>> mirror. For example:
>>>
>>> deb http://depot-trinity.dotriver.eu/trinity-v3.5.13/debian squeeze
>>> main
>>> deb http://depot-trinity.dotriver.eu/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/debian
>>> squeeze main
>>
>> Great!  Thanks Slávek!  That is exactly what I was originally asking
>> for!!
>>
>> Does anyone know of any others?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lisi
>
> There is a list here:
> http://trinitydesktop.org/contributors.php
>
> Encountering 403 errors is not a good sign; one of the mirrors must be at
> least partially broken.
>
> Tim

http://ftp.rezopole.net/tde/ and http://trinity.netlinux.org.uk seem to be
silently blocking some downloads.  I will look into this further.

Tim