[Bug 802507] Re: "Failed to download packages. Check your connection" when trying to download Steel Storm

[Jarlath]

Thanks Gary,

That did the trick for me.

Kind regards,
Jarlath

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Gary Lasker
<gary.lasker at canonical.com>wrote:

> Hi Jarlath, we had another report of somebody else having problems
> downloading the large file for Steel Storm. He tried installing using
> apt-get directly and it worked, so I wonder if that might work for you.
> If you'd like to try, please open a terminal and type the following
> commands:
>
>    sudo apt-get update
>    sudo apt-get install steelstorm-episode2
>    sudo apt-get install steelstorm-episode2-data
>
> That last is the large file. Please let us know if this works for you.
>
> Thanks again!
> Gary
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Title:
  "Failed to download packages. Check your connection" when trying to
  download Steel Storm

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I've tried a few times for a successful download but it always fails.
  It had been downloading about 500mb of the ~650mb, but now it fails
  instantly on 0MB

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: software-center 4.0.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Jun 27 13:28:40 2011
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
   LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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