apt-get problem

[stan]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:00:28PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 06:32 -0500, stan wrote:
> > If you are talking about the --fix-missing, I tried that, of course.
> 
> That and the apt-get update, which is also recommended. 
> 
> I don't know why you think that I would assume that you "tried that, of
> course": nothing in your post suggested that you did. And I would avoid
> wasting your and my time with more complicated stuff before being sure
> that you tried the simple things first.
> 
> It is the collective mailing list wisdom of decades that the person
> asking for help is in general best off by stating 4 things:
> * What he aims to achieve
> * What he did
> * What the exacts results were
> * What he tried to correct them and with what effects
> This gives helpers the best basis to work from.
> 
> So, you tried "apt-get upgrade --fix-missing". What was the output? And
> did you also "apt-get update" before that?

Here is the tail end of that output

Get:4 http://plabws1.meadwestvaco.com gutsy-updates/main hplip-gui
2.7.7.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.1 [117kB]
Fetched 7660kB in 0s (9171kB/s)
Failed to fetch
http://plabws1.meadwestvaco.com:9999/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hplip/hplip-data_2.7.7.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.1_all.deb
Size mismatch
Failed to fetch
http://plabws1.meadwestvaco.com:9999/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hplip/hplip_2.7.7.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb
Size mismatch
Failed to fetch
http://plabws1.meadwestvaco.com:9999/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hplip/hpijs_2.7.7+2.7.7.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb
Size mismatch
Failed to fetch
http://plabws1.meadwestvaco.com:9999/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hplip/hplip-gui_2.7.7.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.1_all.deb
Size mismatch

yest I did an apt-get update before that, and an apt-get clean before that,
since this may have been triggered by the disk fllling up, remeber?


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