On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:35:58 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Jason Barnett wrote: >> Usually it is do to one of the repositories being down. You can try >> again later or change the repository mirror to one that is working, >> then try again and it should get the rest of the packages. >Thanks, Jason. After the first round I had it check again and it found >another 242 packages (including those it couldn't find before). I let >it run the updates and it's all done now. You do want to go into Synaptic or Software Sources (which is a subset of the repository utility from Synaptic) and test the various servers to find the fastest one. At the Clinic I have frequently run into Ubuntu installations where the default server is somebody's laptop on a dial-up in Upper Lower Somelandia. For a while back in my Ubuntu days I had it set to (can't remember for sure) either cat.pdx.edu or osuosl. Then one day I discovered that packages that were supposedly available in repositories that I had enabled were not there. After some experimenting I discovered that some mirrors were not always complete. And it wasn't just a case of new packages that were lagged in getting out to the mirrors; often it was packages for which there had been no changes for months. Ubuntu does a pretty darn good job of keeping their repos and mirrors up to date - better than most distros - but the system is still not perfect. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
