Can't update mirrors

[addr]

AMD 64: newly installed vl 5.9 RC2.
I get an error message trying to update the package/extra/patch list with gslapt.
The firewall is not enabled and no matter which mirrors I select I just get a 'cannot connect to' or 'cannot update' error (I forget the wording).
I must have something fundamentally wrong here as Firefox works fine but the attempts to connect to the mirrors are really slow before they quit altogether.

Code:

:# slapt-get --update
Retrieving package data [http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/vectorlinux.com/VL64-5.9/patches/]...Failed to download: HTTP response code said error
Retrieving package data [http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/vectorlinux.com/VL64-5.9/extra/]...Failed to parse package data from http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/vectorlinux.com/VL64-5.9/extra/
Sources failed to download, correct sources and rerun --update

Edit: The Sticky on VL mirrors ,,,the link gives me an error.

[caitlyn]

Is that VL 5.9 Standard RC2?  SOHO RC2?  VL64 5.9 alpha2?  All of those are long discarded development releases with known problems.  You need to be on a final build of 5.9 or 5.9.1.  The only current release candidate is Vector Linux 6.0 RC4.

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I am trying to get a 64 bit version so I guess I'm out of luck.

[caitlyn]

You are not out of luck.  VL64 5.9 was abandoned, yes.  There is a VL64 6.0 that is currently at alpha-0.9 and it's getting good reports for an early development version.  You may want to try that.

Having said that, yes, you are correct that Vector Linux has not had a 64-bit final release yet.