Mint 11 Updates Broken After Download Nobody can help?

[dwarf365]

Greetings! New user to Linux mint and I need help with mint update. I put Linux in Dual boot with my unconnected entertainment pc (vids, music ect) and I love the look and feel of mint, but of course i had to start tweaking. I gave it an Internet connection and told mint update to download the 113 some odd recommended packages. Everything seemed fine till I came back to the computer with an error message "Some of the packages could not be retrieved from the server(s). Do you want to continue, ignoring these packages?" So I click yes and most of the packages seem to apply fine. However 5 of of the packages are now broken and I cant install anything. They are packages I really wanted, firefox, vlc data, ect. all say hash sum mismatch. So I do my research and try synaptic package manager to fix broken packages, the download starts, seems fine, than same could not be retrieved error pops up after i watch it fully download each package. So more research later I am in terminal. I tried sudo apt-get update seems to be working but didn't change anything on the system. I tried sudo apt-get upgrade, and it gave a E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. so I add the command to the end and it says correcting dependencies and starts downloading the broken packages, 100mb later E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Well I tried the update already but I did it again, same result. and the fix missing command is not known. So i try a few other commands from from the threads on this subject and no luck whatsoever. So I boot Linux into recovery and goto fix broken packages but just more errors pop up about how it cant find servers (duh no internet) every thing i have tried fails miserably. There are packages I need and i'm stuck right where where it is. After each command attempt I would restart Linux and recheck the packages, always still broken. I have tried doing this 4 times from scratch and every time its a different number of packages. This time its only 5 packages and I don't want to wipe it again. Please somebody body help I don't want to go back to bill gates disgusting teat.

[Elisa]

Maybe using other mirrors would help. Can u post here the result of:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[dwarf365]

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ katya main upstream import backport romeo
deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ katya main upstream import backport romeo #Added by software-properties
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ natty partner
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty main
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ natty free non-free

deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu natty-getdeb apps
deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu natty-getdeb games

[dwarf365]

lol i just seen my title sorry downlad geez

[wayne128]

try as root

apt-get update <enter>, I think you did it already, next command is what it suggest,

apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing <enter>, this is how I usually add with --fix-missing, check this out to see how it find the missing stuff for you

[dwarf365]

dwarf@dwarf-desktop ~ $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing
[sudo] password for dwarf:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox-globalmenu : Depends: firefox (= 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2) but 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 is installed
libvlccore4 : Depends: vlc-data (= 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.1) but 1.1.9-1ubuntu1 is installed
thunderbird-globalmenu : Depends: thunderbird (= 3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2) but 3.1.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

[wayne128]

dwarf@dwarf-desktop ~ $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing
[sudo] password for dwarf:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox-globalmenu : Depends: firefox (= 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2) but 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 is installed
libvlccore4 : Depends: vlc-data (= 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.1) but 1.1.9-1ubuntu1 is installed
thunderbird-globalmenu : Depends: thunderbird (= 3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2) but 3.1.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

oh well, one leads to another, wonder what happen, so just try its suggestion

apt-get -f install

[dwarf365]

dwarf@dwarf-desktop ~ $ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
firefox libvlccore4 thunderbird vlc-data
Suggested packages:
latex-xft-fonts thunderbird-gnome-support
Recommended packages:
ubufox
The following packages will be upgraded:
firefox libvlccore4 thunderbird vlc-data
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 19.6 MB/35.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,524 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main thunderbird i386 3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2 [11.0 MB]
Get:2 http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/ natty-getdeb/apps vlc-data all 1.1.10-1~getdeb1 [8,674 kB]
Fetched 19.6 MB in 4min 55s (66.4 kB/s)
Failed to fetch http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/pool/a ... b1_all.deb Hash Sum mismatch
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... 2_i386.deb Hash Sum mismatch
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

[dwarf365]

Running in this circle all weekend

[Elisa]

As for the last unable to fetch - http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/pool/a ... b1_all.deb - when I tried to get it by web, I got 'unreachable error', see:

http://pkgs.org/download/ubuntu-11.04/g ... l.deb.html => http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/pool/a ... b1_all.deb

Is that mirror offline ?

And the last error of unable to fetch, try that package download from here:
http://pkgs.org/download/ubuntu-11.04/u ... 6.deb.html

AFAIK, it's not original from ubuntu, so...
Wait when the official mirror is on or try to get this one. Or wait a while if another wise helper won't advise you something usable

[dwarf365]

no luck yet, wont let me install downloaded packages because of broken dependences. getting dizzy.

[dwarf365]

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... 2_i386.deb
Hash Sum mismatch


W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... 2_i386.deb
Hash Sum mismatch
the heck?