Thanks topguy, after running all the commands you listed and then finally running "apt-cache search ftp | grep ftp | grep client" (I never knew my keyboard had the " | " symbol before now) I got the same list of packages as you did. Just to give you more insight, here's what I saw. sly@raspberrypi:/...

My verson of Raspbian Jessie is 4.1.13+ based off of the command I used below sly@raspberrypi:~ $ uname -r 4.1.13+ The contents of "/etc/apt/sources.list" I have below. deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian jessie main contrib non-free rpi # Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to en...

Thanks topguy, but I agree with stderr you should run things before you post them (that comment was only for the event that you didn't run the command "apt-cache search ftp" so if you did run it, just ignore that comment then), but to stderr I didn't get what you got when I ran the command "apt-cach...

I just tried to install ftp and this is what I got sly@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install ftp Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package ftp I just want to get two programs off of my pi and on to my computer. Any possible so...

Thanks sebathorus, ever since I set up a static ip I haven't had a problem since.

- Sly

Iv'e been having a similar problem, I even tried changing the mirror apt-get was using multiple times but iv'e been getting the same problem no matter what. :( To give you an idea of what my problem is here's what I keep seeing when I run the command apt-get update: sly724@raspberrypi:/etc/apt $ sud...