[Aptitude-devel] Bug#673521: Wheezy: "aptitude update" fails

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 19 May 2012 18:48, T Elcor <telcor at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.6.7-1
>

At what version is libapt-pkg4.12 on this system?

> Fetched 3 B in 1s (2 B/s)
> W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en: 404  Not Found [IP: 128.61.240.89 80]
>
> W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/non-free/i18n/Translatio... 404  Not Found [IP: 128.61.240.89 80]

Looking in those directories reveals that they only have .bz2 files.

Installing package bzip2 or updating apt and libapt-pkg4.12 to 0.9.3
should resolve the issue.  Failing that, provide a copy of your apt
configuration.

Regards