<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 16, 2008 9:49 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Jan 16, 2008 9:19 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I installed Kubuntu 7.10 on a new<br>> machine, and started to install some
<br>> packages using apt-get. Seems most<br>> to everything I asked for got the<br>> response "insert system media," or words<br>> to that effect, and then I invariably would<br>> get "Hash Sum Mismatch."
<br>><br>> Looking on the web, I discover this is a<br>> common problem. One solution was<br>> something like:<br>><br>> Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this.<br>><br>> Doctor: Don't do that.
<br>><br>> In this case the suggestion was to comment<br>> out the line in /etc/apt/sources.list having to<br>> do with the CDROM.<br>><br>> That did in fact cure most of what was ailing<br>> things, but it still seems like a bug, cured by
<br>> what M$ would call a patch.<br>><br>> Anyone know in any detail what "Hash Sum<br>> Mismatch" is saying? It sounds like a corrupt<br>> DVD, but then the OS appears to have installed<br>> without problems.
<br>><br>> I have no particular desire to get to the CDROM,<br>> because the newest stuff will not be there, but I'd<br>> still like to have a better idea what is going on.<br><br></div></div>Do you know which script is raising the error?
<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- </font></blockquote><div>I really don't know anything beyond what<br>I said before. I took the CDROM entry out<br>of /etc/apt/sources.list, and apt-get install X,<br>where X is some package, now works.
<br><br>Meaning that I don't get the message.<br><br> -Bob<br> <br></div></div><br>