Problems verify non OSS irtualbox package

Jim Byrnes jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Sat Dec 4 22:42:35 UTC 2010


stan wrote:
> I have several machines that I am using the non OSS version of Virtual Box
> on I have added the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list on all of the:
>
> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian maverick non-free
>
>
> I have downlaoed oracle_vbox.asc, and added this key. Yet on this one
> machine, I get the folowing wehn I run apt-get updtae:
>
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/lucid/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
> Sub-process /bin/bzip2 returned an error code (2)
>
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.
>
> What can I d to fix this?
>
>

I haven't tried the non-free version yet so it may be nothing. In your 
sources list line you say maverick non-free but in the error message it 
says /lucid/non-free.  Maybe there is a mis-match on this one machine.

Regards,  Jim




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