This is probably as far as I can go now. The following steps addressed the symptom and allowed me to install the packages. I still don't know what went wrong in the first place, though, but hopefully this can help others. Do all as root.
I took the first package which it complains about, and wanted to find where on my system it is: # locate cups_1.3.9-2ubuntu4_i386.deb | xargs ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1161864 2008-11-26 18:05 /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/cups_1.3.9-2ubuntu4_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-cacher-ng apt-cacher-ng 1161864 2008-12-19 09:08 /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/uburep/pool/main/c/cups/cups_1.3.9-2ubuntu4_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-cacher-ng apt-cacher-ng 248 2008-12-19 09:08 /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/uburep/pool/main/c/cups/cups_1.3.9-2ubuntu4_i386.deb.head The first two have the same size, and diff showed them to be identical. The third is a control file with the following contents: # cat /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/uburep/pool/main/c/cups/cups_1.3.9-2ubuntu4_i386.deb.headHTTP/1.0 200 OK Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 1161864 Last-Modified: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:05:05 GMT X-Original-Source: http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cups/cups_1.3.9-2ubuntu4_i386.deb Date: Fri Dec 19 07:08:19 2008 This shows the same file size, and the date & time agree as well, taking into account my listing is GMT+2. I was at my wits' end with this, so I deleted the three files and again ran "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade". That solved the problem for this file, but of course not for the others. To get the others sorted out I wrote the following one-liner, which you can pull apart if you like: echo Y | apt-get upgrade 2>&1 | grep "^Failed to" | cut -d" " -f4 | awk -F/ '{system("locate " $NF)}' | xargs rm Check the results by running "apt-get upgrade". Before running it, though, save the output of your "apt-get upgrade" command, so you can check later if everything went well. It's a bit over the top, but saves a LOT of typing. It will only work if before you run it, you have updated your "locate" data base by running "updatedb". You would also do well first to have checked what was upgraded in the process: in my case Firefox was updated and needed a re-start. -- Size mismatch remains after much fiddling https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/310544 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
