Re: apt-get gives MD5Sum mismatch

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque@cox.net>]

Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:

> Hi:
>
>  I am trying to update my unstable on one of my linux machines and it
>  gives 
>
>  Failes to fetch
>  http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
>  MD5Sum mismatch
>
>  same for Packages.gz in non-free/binary-i386
>  W: Could'nt stat source package list http: //http.us.debian.org
>  unstable/main Packages
>  (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
>  -stat (2 No such file or directory)
>  and another similar message. Now I have another linux machine and that
>  has the same sources.list file and seems to have no problem.
>
>  How does one  get around this difficulty?
>  
I ran into this yesterday trying to install jdk from unstable (sid).  
When I changed my mirror from what it was to 
"http://ftp.debian.org/debian"; in /etc/apt/sources.list it went away for 
me.  Can't say why, but it did.

>  Thanks.
>
>  Sebastian Canagaratna
>  Department of Chemistry
>  Ohio Northern University
>  Ada, OH 45810
>
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