On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I was installing upgrading one of my machines to potato, and > apt-get did what I thought was its business, but it seemed too > short of a period of time for it to finish. I did an apt-get > upgrade (assuming I was officially at the potato level) and > apt-get gives me this: > > E: Size mismatch for package fdflush > > I re-installed fdflush by hand, but that didn't work. Any ideas? > Should I try to install a package from another mirror?
This will only happen if APT went to download a package and what it downloaded was the wrong size - ie your mirror is busted. If you run apt-get again then it will perform a resume operation, assuming that the mirror you are using is in the process of downloading it. Otherwise use another mirror - you may or may not have to erase /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/* by hand - it depends on what was wrong with your mirror and what apt version you are using. (0.3.11 will recover fully if you run it enough times ;>) Jason
