[Wine] Re: Ubuntu Dapper/Debian repository broken?

[glgxg]

Daniel Skorka wrote:
> glgxg <glgxg at mfire.com.invalid> wrote:
>> I attempted to intall Wine per the instructions at:
>> 
>> http://www.winehq.com/site/download-deb
>> 
>> However, I found that the repository mentioned on that page:
>> For Ubuntu Dapper (6.06):
>> deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
>> points to a 1.3K file:
>> 
>> http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386/
>> Index of /apt/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386
>> Icon  Name                    Last modified      Size  Description[DIR]
>> Parent Directory                             -
>> [   ] Packages                25-Aug-2006 08:11  4.0K
>> [   ] Packages.gz             25-Aug-2006 08:11  1.3K <===
>> [   ] Release                 07-Apr-2006 10:40  112
>> Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) Server at wine.budgetdedicated.com Port 80
> 
> So? Whats wrong with that?
> 
> Daniel

Apologies; should have been "points to a 1.3K file that gives errors.

The errors are:

>From Synaptics Package Manager:
====
Could not download all repository indexes

The repository might be no longer available or could not be contacted
because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed
index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your
network connection and the correct writing of the repository address in
the preferences

http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/dists/dapper/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz:
404 Not Found
====

>From apt-get:
====
 $ sudo apt-get update
[snip]
Ign http://wine.budgetdedicated.com dapper Release.gpg
[snip]
Err http://wine.budgetdedicated.com dapper/main Packages
  404 Not Found
[snip]
Fetched 5B in 2s (2B/s)
Failed to fetch
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/dists/dapper/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 404 Not Found
====

I ended up downloading directly from:

http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/pool/main/w/wine/wine_0.9.20~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1_i386.deb
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