apt-get fails with large package

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

I am trying to upgrade a machine to slink, it was going fine till it
attempted to download the "xbooks" package.  It waited for ages saying

0% [Waiting for file]

Then eventually bombed out with:

Get:1 http://www.au.debian.org stable/main xbooks 3.3.2.3a-2 [17.4Mb]
Err http://www.au.debian.org stable/main xbooks 3.3.2.3a-2                     
  Error reading from server Remote end closed connection
Failed to fetch http://www.au.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/x
11/xbooks_3.3.2.3a-2.deb
  Error reading from server Remote end closed connection
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing?


Now I tried two different archives, namely "http.us.debian.org" and
"www.au.debian.org" and both had the same problem.  It would seem that
any file too large just doesn't even start downloading.  Any
ideas/solutions?

Oh, and the other thing is, apt-get suggested "maybe try with --fix-missing",
but I cannot find any mention of --fix-missing in the apt-get documentation.
Is this a typo?  If not, what does this option do?

Cheers,

Mark.

P.S.  This is apt version 0.3.2



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