Gstreamer extra plugins ("ugly") fail to install

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 06:31 +0000, thufir wrote:
> However, it fails to install with the following error message.  Is the 
> server just down?  I seem to frequently get errors along this line.  How 
> unsafe is this?  Any actual instances of malicious code being downloaded?

> The error:
> 
> 
> 
> W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/
> cabextract/cabextract_1.2-2_i386.deb
>   302 Found
<snip>



302 is the http error for "URL temporarily moved": http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E302.html
If you get this frequently, it would just mean that the mirror you use
(*ca*) has problems. In this case you may want to try a different one
(System -> Administration -> Software Sources).

Today it would not surprise me if mirrors had problems, as Ubuntu 8.04
was released today.

Re your question about malicious code, there is little likelihood that a
cracked server would be able to install malware, because Ubuntu packages
are cryptographically signed and the package manager checks the
signature.