server keeps updating openjdk

[Tapas Mishra]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Carsten Aulbert
<carsten.aulbert at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Tuesday 08 February 2011 10:28:45 Tapas Mishra wrote:
>> Like this the above output grows till I got 70th time
>> Get:70 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main
>> openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB]
>> then I had to forcefully stop the update from happening.
>> What is causing this problem?
>
> This looks like a download problem, I just tested and both amd64 and i386
> files download fine manually:
>
> wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-
> headless_6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1_amd64.deb
>
> can you test if that works for you?
Yes this does work for me and I have the file with me.
But where do I put it?
> in principle you could work around this by placing the manually downloaded
> file into the appropriate place and /var but that won't tell you/us why apt
> failed here.


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