apt-get update fails

NoOp glgxg at mfire.com
Wed May 16 02:49:33 UTC 2007


On 05/15/2007 07:27 PM, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> debian wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 20:17 -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:
>>   
>>> In the last few days I am seeing the following errors when attempting 
>>> "apt-get update":
>>>
>>>
>>> For a AMD64 installation:
>>>
>>>
>>> Failed to fetch 
>>> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2  
>>> MD5Sum mismatch
>>> Failed to fetch 
>>> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2  
>>> MD5Sum mismatch
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
>>> ones used instead.
>>>
>>>
>>> For a X86 installation:
>>>
>>>
>>> Failed to fetch 
>>> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2  
>>> MD5Sum mismatch
>>> Failed to fetch 
>>> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2  
>>> MD5Sum mismatch
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
>>> ones used instead.
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyone else seeing it?  Any fix?
>>>
>>>
>>> Avi
>>>
>>>     
>> apt-get works great with me
>>
>> heres what i type:
>> sudo apt-get update
>>
>> works just fine
>> --cj
>>
>>   
> Are you running Feisty?
> 
> Avi
> 


You might want to try again or try a different archive location.
Sometimes the archive locations get screwed up - particularly when there
are updates available. BTW: what do you get if you download the file via
http? For
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-amd64/
I get:
$ md5sum *.bz2
0b94a05e11d154bc9b76c887962b862e  Packages.bz2






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