Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:48:44 -0400, Neal wrote in message 
<[🔎] 201206131348.44297.neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu>:

> Any idea what would cause the following errors and how to recover?
> The system was fine until I installed updates recently.
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> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or
> old ones used instead.
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> The system's in pre-deployment and won't hurt to reinstall it. But
> it'd be nice to know why this happened.

..network problems.  Fix those, and try again.

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