karmic package upgrade failed for tzdata & devicekit-disks

[Karl Larsen]

On 03/31/2010 05:22 AM, Steve wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:10:38 +0100, Dave Howorth
> <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I was just adding some packages to a karmic machine using synaptic and
>> there were some upgrades available. When I try to apply them I see the
>> following messages:
>>
>> W: Failed to fetch
>> http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata-java_2010e-0ubuntu0.9.10_all.deb
>>    404  Not Found
>>
>>
>> W: Failed to fetch
>> http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata_2010e-0ubuntu0.9.10_all.deb
>>    404  Not Found
>>
>>
>> W: Failed to fetch
>> http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/devicekit-disks/devicekit-disks_007-2ubuntu5_i386.deb
>>    404  Not Found
>>
>> The missing tzdata file means that upgrades for many other packages
>> can't be applied.
>>
>> I haven't seen any other comments about this on the list. Where should I
>> look to determine what the problem is?
>>
>> Thanks, Dave
>>
>>      
> It may be the mirror hasn’t fully sync’d, so I would just try again later.
>
>    
         I suggest you also update your computer for all mirrors you 
need. I do it from a terminal and the two calls are:

$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude upgrade

     I use these every day for my Lucid which gets 200 updates a day now.

73 Karl