apt-get update fails

NoOp glgxg at mfire.com
Wed May 16 05:05:25 UTC 2007


On 05/15/2007 09:41 PM, Avi Schwartz wrote:

> I don't know if this matters, but when I download Packages.bz2 via 
> Firefox I see the following:
> 
> from 
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-amd64/ 
> firefox displays the file on the screen instead of offering to download it.
> from 
> ftp://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-amd64/ 
> firefox recognizes it as a binary file and offers me to download it.
> 
> Is it possible this indicates there is a problem with the 
> security.ubuntu.com repository?
> 
> Avi
> 

Looks that way. Same happened here. When I tried
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-amd64/
previously I simply right clicked to download the file rather than
actually clicking.





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