Synaptic problem. MD5 sum mismatch with all installs

[Kam Leo]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
>> Since the Fedora servers were compromised, I've been having problems with
>> apt-get, and synaptic. I think I've got the apt-get problems resolved, but
>> trying to install a package using synaptic results in problems. The package
>> will download ok, but I get the following post download.
>>
>> Preparing
>>
>> While Installing package phasex-0.11.1-5.fc9:
>>
>> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/phasex;48d6bc 19:
>> cpio: MD5 sum mismatch.
>>
>> If I were to do an apt-get install phasex, it would install ok, but for some
>> reason synaptic is giving these MD5 sum mismatch errors, and won't install
>> the package. this is only since the Fedora servers were compromised.
>>
>> I've never had any problems with apt-get, and synaptic before, and have been
>> using them since Fedora Core 1.
>>
>> As a last resort I did an apt-get remove synaptic, followed by a yum remove
>> apt, then deleted the remaining apt directories (/var/cache/apt,
>> and /etc/apt).
>>
>> Now to re-install apt with yum install apt, and followed by apt-get install
>> synaptic. I still get the same MD5 sum mismatches when trying to install
>> phasex (as an example) with synaptic.
>>
>> Any suggestions as to how to deal with these MD5 sum mismatches that I'm
>> getting from synaptic?
>>
>> Prior to the Fedora servers being compromised, both apt-get, and synaptic were
>> working with no problems, but there seems to be a lot of stuff hitting the
>> fan at the moment when trying to use synaptic.
>>
>> Always gratefull for help when I'm really stuck with a problem I can't fix.
>>
>> Nigel.
>>
>>
>
> Fedora default update system is Yum, so I can see how they could've
> overlooked it.
> OTOH, I've seen this problem with yum once - the solution was to run
> "yum clean all" to clean the cache.
>
> HTH

Have you installed the "newkey" updates; i.e. run yum upgrade, and
install the new keys? After that did you update your apt repositories?
You need to do both.

The easiest thing for me was to just do another yum uprade to get the
latest updates for smart and apt-get from the .newkey repo.