stupid apt problem

[Panu Matilainen]

Quoting Daniel Wittenberg <daniel-wittenberg at starken.com>:

> I just decided to update my RH 9 laptop to fedora 9.0.93.  I've used
> apt-rpm many times, so familiar with that, just never done an apt-get
> dist-upgrade before.  So I download the Fedora apt RPM, install ok, but
> try to apt-get update from any sites, and I get a lot of:
> "Failed to fetch ftp://.... Size mismatch" errors

That simply means that either
a) the packages on the repository are corrupt/not yet fully downloaded
b) download went bad (could be a proxy acting up or whatever)

Usually just re-running dist-upgrade will fix the situation (it'll continue the
download where it left off the last time, also in case of partially downloaded
packages)

> 
> and of course then trying apt-get dist-upgrade fails miserably.  When
> doing an apt-get dist-upgrade you put the version you want to upgrade
> to, right?  (/pub/linux/fedora/fedora redhat/9.0.93/i386 os stable
> updates)

That looks ok otherwise.. BUT at this stage you shouldn't bother with 9.0.93
anymore, upgrade to Fedora Core 0.94 which is the second beta where 9.0.93 was
the first. So that'd be "<server+path> redhat/0.94/i386 os stable updates", for
the sites that have apt-enabled FC 0.94 repositories (well, fedora.us does now)

> 
> I know this is probably something stupid...or is it easier to download
> the .iso's and do it that way?  It seemed from the webpage the "proper"
> way to do it was via apt so I thought I'd try.

You *can* do it with apt, yum or up2date but the "official" way is to upgrade
with anaconda.

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