On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:38:24 -0500 (EST), [email protected] wrote: > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones > used instead.
I am just an ordinary user, not a package maintainer. This is a long shot, but it seems to me that I used to get errors like this often on one machine, but not another. I tried comparing my /etc/apt/sources.list file between the failing machine and the working machine. The only difference I could find was the order in which "contrib" and "non-free" were listed. On one machine, contrib was listed before non-free and on the other non-free was listed before contrib. I changed the order on the machine that was having the problems to match the order on the machine that wasn't having the problems. I didn't think it would really fix the problem, but I thought it was worth a try. It worked! I don't remember which was the order that worked, but I think it was "main non-free contrib" I don't know if that will fix your problem or not, but you might want to give it a try. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
