Problem installing programs

[M. Iqbal AROUSSI]

> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:36:47 -0500
> From: Dennis_Drescher at sil.org
> Subject: Problem installing programs
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm fairly new to Kubuntu. I have used several flavors of Debian over the 
> past couple years but I'm not what you would call a power user. I'm having 
> problems installing some programs. I'm getting an error out of Synaptic 
> that I don't know what to do with. So far it has happened when I tried to 
> install Digikam and OpenOffice 2 first I get a dialog box that says:
> 
> Some of the packages could not be retrieved from the server(s).
> Do you want to continue, ignoring these packages?
> 
> I'm assuming that answer should be no, which then stops the process. 
> However, for one of them I said yes just to see what would happen and I 
> got an error like this:
> 
> W: Failed to fetch 
>
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/imlib2/libimlib2_1.1.2-2.1_i386.deb
> 
> MD5Sum mismatch
> 
> This probably was caused because of the first problem but I'm not sure.
> 
> My question is, are some dependent libraries missing from the repository 
> or am I missing some repositories from my installation of Synaptic? If so, 
> which ones? Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 

hi 
i had the same problem installing other debs
all i did is deleting the us from the repository URL 
so for :
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu 
now i have 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu 

and now it works ok 

mayb the us servers r exprecing some problems IMHO.


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