Re: [LUG] etch to lenny upgrade

[Steve James <ste@xxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 17 Oct 2008, Paul Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just run
>
> apt-get  update
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get dist-upgrade on my etch system, (well last night I am now
> running lenny or am according to the login screen)
>
> however right at the end of the  dist-upgrade bit,  it seems to hit an
> error
>
>   yelp ytalk zenity zipper.app zlib1g zlib1g-dev
> 1285 upgraded, 347 newly installed, 95 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> Need to get 786kB/1463MB of archives.
> After unpacking 759MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
> Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main dselect 1.14.22 [786kB]
> Fetched 786kB in 13s (59.3kB/s)
> Failed to fetch
> http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.14.22_i386.deb
> MD5Sum mismatch
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
> --fix-missing?
> root@duron1600:/home/psutton#
>
> clearly this implies that dselect_1.14.22.i386.deb is causing the
> problem,  any one got an idea on how to fix  I have run apt-get update
> but that does not fix it.
>
> I think once all these packages are downloaded it then runs an install
> script to install all the newly downloaded packages so while i am partly
> running etch,  it needs to install all the stuff its downloaded.
>
> can anyone help or suggest something please.
--snip--

Paul,

I agree it looks like that package is corrupted somewhere upstream. I suggest 
you go to http://packages.debian.org and pull the package from an alternative 
mirror. Pop it into /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then restart the upgrade. I 
think that's sort it. BTW make sure you don't have a copy 
in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/.
Good luck,
Steve.

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