apt-get update fails

debian debiani386 at gmail.com
Wed May 16 03:14:41 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:27 -0500, 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
> 

yes..just upgraded and after upgrading, i downloaded the alien and tar
(the one for the console) and i used apt-get to do it

--cj





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