I've been having trouble installing a package for a number of days now and can't find the solution anywhere, though I have been able to figure out more exactly what's going wrong. It appears that apt-get or aptitude appends an incorrect extension to the file when searching for a specific dependency package libsocket-perl in the archive mirror.
Looking through the archive, I can find many versions of the package:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libs/libsocket-perl/
libsocket-perl_2.014-1+b2_s390x.deb libsocket-perl_2.014-1.debian.tar.xz libsocket-perl_2.014-1.dsc libsocket-perl_2.014-1_amd64.deb libsocket-perl_2.014-1_armel.deb libsocket-perl_2.014-1_armhf.deb libsocket-perl_2.014-1_i386.deb libsocket-perl_2.014-1_kfreebsd-amd64.deb libsocket-perl_2.014-1_kfreebsd-i386.deb libsocket-perl_2.014-1_mips.deb libsocket-perl_2.014-1_mipsel.deb libsocket-perl_2.014-1_powerpc.deb libsocket-perl_2.014.orig.tar.gz ... but when apt-get or aptitude attempt to get and install it, I get this error thrown:
E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libs/libsocket-perl/libsocket-perl_2.014-1+b1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 64.50.233.100 80] The +b1_amd64.deb extension is not to be found on the archive.
Now I don't really understand why I need a +b1 version of the package or why it isn't available on the archive. Is there a way that I can get the package manager to search for an available version that would do instead?
apt-cache policy libsocket-perlin the question, please.