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RE: apt-get size mismatch with woody



Yep, usually running apt-get update twice fixes it for me also.  A few times
i had to manually install all the updates.  Yuk! :)  Thanks for the replies!

Jason

>
> 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/te
> tex-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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