packages broken on us.archive.ubunutu.com for main?

[Daniel Robitaille]

James Carroll wrote:
> I'm getting the following on a few packages today:
> 
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng3/libpng12-dev_1.2.8rel-1_i386.deb
>   MD5Sum mismatch
> 
> png, jpeg, and nvida's glx packages...
> 
> I've waited an hour and re-tried, so I don't think it's a matter of
> being half way through an update on the server...

it's a known problem for the last few days with the us mirror:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12538



> Is there an alternate server I should point my sources to?
> 
> right now I'm us.archive.ubuntu.org (or something like that.)

you are most problably using "us.archive.ubuntu.com"

anything but "us" should work to avoid that md5sum problem:  "ca", "uk", etc.


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Daniel Robitaille