[Pkg-mono-devel] Cannot install mono on debian - Hash file mismatch
Jo Shields
directhex at apebox.org
Mon Oct 6 13:33:47 UTC 2014
On 06/10/14 14:09, spiko wrote:
> I am following the mono installation tutorial. First I add repo to list, then
> I import key and finally I try to update the repos.
Please don't send messages to pkg-mono-devel about Xamarin's software
repositories - this list is specifically about development of Mono
packaging inside Debian, not by third-party companies.
> On last step I get error:
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/Packages
> Hash Sum mismatch
>
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.
> I tried to fix this by running rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* but the error
> remains.
>
> I asked the question on how to fix this on
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159591/why-do-i-get-hash-sum-mismatch-error-when-trying-to-install-mono-on-debian/159602
> and answer is that probably hash file should be updated on the server.
Wait a few hours. This is caused by the download site being behind a
CDN, and the caches for Release and Packages.gz being mismatched. It'll
clear itself up within a few hours.
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