Thanks for the tip. I had already googled and come across the suggestions that the problem could be due to not syncing with the mirror and that a change of the mirror in sources.list to ftp2.de.debian.org would help. I did this and it is workig like a charm.
Sebastian On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 04:13:22PM -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
