[Bug 510543] Re: apt can't handle installing more than 4 Gb of packages at once

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

I cannot reproduce this problem in Precise, I just installed 6 Gb of packages at once.
I'm marking it "Fix Released" even if I don't know exactly at which point it was fixed.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  apt can't handle installing more than 4 Gb of packages at once

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apt

  I've been seeing this in Jaunty, Karmic and now Lucid alpha 2 so it
  must be a long standing problem.

  `apt-get install package1 package2`, where those 2 packages exceed 4 Gb halts with the following error:
  "Failed to fetch http://ts.sch.gr/repo/pool/main/g/gymnasio/gymnasio_0.14_all.deb  Bad header line
  E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?"

  If I try the installation separately, `apt-get install package1` and later `apt-get install package2` it works fine (of course if each one of them is less than 4 Gb).
  It also works fine if I try the command twice (see the attached file): the first time it downloads 4 Gb of packages, and it fails, and the second time it downloads the rest Gb, and it succeeds.

  To reproduce the problem, just install a whole lot of packages *that
  you do not already have in your apt cache* at once from the Ubuntu
  repositories.

  I'm attaching the output I get while trying to install 5 Gb of some Greek educational packages.
  I also tried with aptitude and on a different web server, see the attached file.

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