Re: [rdiff-backup-users] errors installing 1.0.5

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Bob,

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Bob Mead wrote:

> >  You need to install the python-dev or python-devel package.
>
> Ugh... that brought a whole new list of packages (and problems :-\) it seems 
> that my version of gnu/linux (fiesty era) doesn't have/can't find the 
> repositories for several of the required packages/updates/upgrades.

Feisty is no longer supported, it's possible that the repositories have 
been withdrawn by now.

> I tried apt's suggestion of adding the --fix-missing option to no avail. 
> Is there another way to make this work? I *really* don't want to rebuild 
> this server (actually, I'm not sure I *can* rebuild this server...).

Perils of using an unsupported distribution :( You could try to install 
python from source, but your machine is fundamentally busted without 
repositories to download software from. You can still get the ISOs from 
http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/, or change your apt config 
to use http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/.

Cheers, Chris.
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