Comment 17 for bug 14486

Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > I put a modified version of apt online at:
> >
> > http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/apt/apt-broken-proxy/apt_0.6.35ubuntu1_i386.deb
> >
> > You can install it (after the download) with:
> > $ sudo dpkg -i apt_0.6.35ubuntu1_i386.deb
> >
> > Then you can run it with:
> > $ sudo apt-get -o Acquire::BrokenProxy=true update
> >
> > This will force apt to always re-get the signature file. I would like to know if
> > that
> > fixes your problem or if you still see the signature errors then.
>
> My kernel uses i686, does that i386 matter? And how can I undo the installation
> back to previous version if there is any problem?

Having a i386 binary on a i686 system is no problem, i686 understand i386
perfectly well. You can go back to the old version with:
$ wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.6.35_i386.deb
(that the current version in hoary)
$ sudo dpkg -i apt_0.6.35_i386.deb
(install that version).

> The apt-get/synaptic is much faster and robust than synaptic in fedora which
> left my system in a messy state when I try to upgrate from fc3 to fc4. I never
> tried warty to hoary before, but I did countless times of updating with Ubuntu
> synpatic/apt-get and never breaks.

Thanks, good to hear :)

Cheers,
 Michael