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Nate_KS
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salix.hostingxtreme.com appears to be down

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After receiving security advisory emails, I tried updating through Gslapt yesterday and received error messages that package files are not available and should they be ignored, etc. I checked with the browser and I get a 404 error on any directory and an error landing page when just trying to go to http://salix.hostingxtreme.com

My /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc references

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SOURCE=http://salix.hostingxtreme.com/x86_64/14.2/:PREFERRED
and other directories.

Looking through the Wiki I modified the file to be

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SOURCE=http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/14.2/:PREFERRED
along with other directories to mirror the old URLs and commented the old URLs.

I will probably need to modify slapt-srcrc and slapt-srcrc.new likewise.
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Re: salix.hostingxtreme.com appears to be down

Post by laprjns »

Yes, salix.hosting extreme.com no longer appears to be an option. An easier way to change your mirror is to use reposetup . Either use the graphical version found in the menu:

Systems > Repository Mirror
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or the command line equivalent, reposetup

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$ sudo reposetup 
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Post by Nate_KS »

Well, I'd never looked there! I guess I made an assumption that the announcements forum only had to do with site announcements and not project announcements.

As the default installation wrote the hostingxtreme address and since I don't recall reading any where else that this situation was imminent, perhaps a note needs to be placed somewhere on the Web site, such as the download page or the Installation Guide.

ETA: I ran the GUI tool just to see what it does and it left a pair of nicely commented files.
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Post by Ken Buck »

Thanks for the info. CLI worked for me.
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Post by Sprinterdrvr »

Hi.

I just installed Salix Fluxbox 14.1 and I have the same problem. Except that I cannot solve it:
- I don't have "Systems > Repository Mirror".
- The command sudo reposetup view some text that does not indicate that the problem will be fixed:
Refreshing mirror list from
http://salix.hostingxtreme.com/MIRRORS
What may be the solution here ?
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gapan
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Run reposetup with the -l option.

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man reposetup
for details.
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Thanks gapan, that solved my problem :D
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