I would say no, simply as it has not committed anything at this point. I'd give it a day or two and see if anything has changed. You might also try changing your repo servers in synaptic. I usually use osuosl repos here in the valley. They always seem to perform well.
------Original Message------ From: Richard C. Steffens Sender: [email protected] To: PLUG List ReplyTo: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic Subject: [PLUG] Ubuntu Update - Packages could not be retrieved Sent: Oct 2, 2009 10:17 I received notice via the orange gear icon that Ubuntu (8.04 hardy) has updates for me to install. I told it to do so. It's a relatively long update -- for me, anyway -- so I wasn't paying attention most of the time. I decided to look back and see how it was doing and found a dialog box with the following message: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Some of the packages could not be retrieved from the server(s). Do you want to continue, ignoring these packages? [No] [Yes] ---------------------------------------------------------------- That's not very informative. How would I know if I should continue or not? All I can see in the update window is, in the upper half of the window, a list of the last 5 packages(?): samba, samba-common, smbclient, ttf-opensymbol, and winbind. Each of these has a filled in blue square to the left if the package name. I recall that there were packages for Open Office, too, but until I respond to the dialog box I can't do anything with the update window. The lower half of the window starts with Version 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.9 (or is it lubuntu?) followed by some security update descriptions. So, is the best answer yes, or no, and why? Thanks. -- Regards, Dick Steffens www.dicksteffens.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
