Brian Wall wrote: > On 7/11/05, Patrick McCabe <patrickm at citilink.com> wrote: > >>I am trying to install packages and some of them fail with MD5 errors, > > If I'm not mistaken, Ubuntu uses round robin DNS just like Debian > does. Sometimes a particular mirror will be syncing a package or > something else that could cause a momentarily corrupt package. > Usually when I get any sort of download error, I try the download a > couple times (in theory, a different server every time). If that > fails, I wait an hour and try again. It's rare that I get a package > that refuses to download. And of course, 'apt-get update' regurlary. > > >>I was trying to download synaptic. What should I do at this point? Is >>there a way around this problem? > > > You could try manually browsing out to a mirror and downloading it. > It's a bit of a pain to manually md5sum it, but you can determine > whether or not the package is broke or part of apt is broke. md5sum > may be broken, or worst case you may have a trojaned md5sum binary. > I added a local mirror http://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/ubuntu to the sources.list file and the install worked fine. Using the default sources (http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) would consistently fail the MD5 check. Don't know why. Thanks for your help. Patrick