Re: apt-get size mismatch with woody

[Gareth Bowker <tgb96@aber.ac.uk>]

Jason Holland wrote:
> 
> hey all,
>   ever since i upgraded to woody, i've been getting a size mismatch with
> apt-get.
> 
> Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main tetex-lib 1.0.7+20000807-2 [33.4kB]
> Failed to fetch
> ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/tex/tetex-bin_1.
> 0.7+20000807-2.deb
>   Size mismatch
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing?
> root@mickey:~#
> 
> i've tried running apt-get with --fix-missing, but it doesn't help.  anyone
> have any ideas or suggestions on how to fix this?  thanks!

I get this every so often too. I just rerun apt-get update. What seems
to happen is that the last byte of the packages isn't being downloaded
for some reason.
Rerunning apt-get update grabs this final byte and everything works
perfectly after this. I always put it down to the fact that we have to
run through a webcache here (which quite often doesn't work as it
should), but it could be down to the debian servers/mirrors or apt
*shrug*. I've never looked into it as rerunning fixes it.

Hope this helps,

Gareth
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