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Old 01-05-2014, 01:03 PM   #1
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RaspberryPi: Cannot get raspbian distros to work right


I recently got a raspberry pi device. First of all I must say that it has been nothing but pure trouble from the beginning.
Problems every step of the way

I finally got a reasonably working OS on it, but apt-get will not work.

When I try for example apt-get install links2
I get this:
Code:
Building package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libdirectfb-1.2-9 libgpm2 libjpeg8 libsvga1 libtiff4 libts-0.0-0 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 tsconf
Suggested packages:
gpm
The following new packages will be installed:
libdirectfb-1.2-9 libgpm2 libjpeg8 libsvga1 libtiff4 libts-0.0-0 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 links2 tsconf
0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3220 kB/4754 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9395 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main libtiff4 armhf 3.9.6-6
    404 Not found
Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main libxcb1 armhf 1.8.1-1
    404 Not found
Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main libx11-data all 2:1.5.0-1
    404 Not found
Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main libx11-6 armhf 2:1.5.0-1
    404 Not found
Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main links2 armhf 2.7-1
    404 Not found
Failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/t/tiff3/libtiff4_3.9.6-6_armhf.deb 404  Not Found
E: Unable to fetch archives, maybe run apt-get update to try with --fix-missing?
apt-get update succeeds but does not fix the problem.

Then I changed the default repo URL from mirrordirector.raspbian.org to archive.raspbian.org

Now when I do apt-get update it hangs up on 100% [2 PACKAGES BZIP2 0 B]
for about 5 minutes before finally spitting this out:
Code:
Fetched 7535 kB in 10 min 24s (12.1 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/mirror.raspberrypi.org_raspbian_dists_wheezy_main_binary_armhf_Packages Hash sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/mirror.raspberrypi.org_raspbian_dists_wheezy_contrib_binary_armhf_Packages Hash sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/mirror.raspberrypi.org_raspbian_dists_wheezy_non-free_binary_armhf_Packages Hash sum mismatch

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
And so far, I have not found a solution through the RPI support system so I thought that I might as well ask here.

package managers sure are a big pain I must say
 
Old 01-05-2014, 03:35 PM   #2
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sounds like both a corrupt install of the OS and a misconfigured manager for apt. i personally never had good luck with RaspBian as it both crashed and took hours to install. In fact the Only OS for my RPi that ive had any success with is RaspBMC. works great for me as I use my RPi as a media server to my TV in the living room.

I would not use the archive.raspbian.org for your apt as that will not have anything current and thus your hash sum mismatch. your system is more up to date then what is in the archive, thus the hashes will never match.

http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianRepository

see if that link helps any.
 
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sounds like both a corrupt install of the OS and a misconfigured manager for apt. i personally never had good luck with RaspBian as it both crashed and took hours to install. In fact the Only OS for my RPi that ive had any success with is RaspBMC. works great for me as I use my RPi as a media server to my TV in the living room.

I would not use the archive.raspbian.org for your apt as that will not have anything current and thus your hash sum mismatch. your system is more up to date then what is in the archive, thus the hashes will never match.

http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianRepository

see if that link helps any.
Well its not even a standard raspbian distro.
The OS I am using is http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/07/...-raspberry-pi/

The reason is because I am stuck on this tiny 1 GB SD card because for some reason the RPI will not boot from my 4 GB card
I guess I will need to find a larger SD card that it will boot from. So temperamental...

And the link you posted is where I got the idea to set the the repo to archive.raspbian.org because it claims that
is the "offical" repo

I am so confused....
 
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Old 01-07-2014, 01:03 PM   #5
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Well its not even a standard raspbian distro.
The OS I am using is http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/07/...-raspberry-pi/

The reason is because I am stuck on this tiny 1 GB SD card because for some reason the RPI will not boot from my 4 GB card
I guess I will need to find a larger SD card that it will boot from. So temperamental...

And the link you posted is where I got the idea to set the the repo to archive.raspbian.org because it claims that
is the "offical" repo

I am so confused....
the ONLY official OS for the RPi is raspbian.

if you are using a fork, then you will have to use the forks repos.

also it would be a good idea to invest in a known good working SD class 10 card. anything from 8-64G will be large enough. the 4G might even be to small. again i use a different OS for my RPi as i only use my RPi for a media server for my family connected to my NFS server running CentOS 6.4
 
Old 01-07-2014, 01:19 PM   #6
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Hey thanks I looked for an embedded section but couldn't find it


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the ONLY official OS for the RPi is raspbian.

if you are using a fork, then you will have to use the forks repos.

also it would be a good idea to invest in a known good working SD class 10 card. anything from 8-64G will be large enough. the 4G might even be to small. again i use a different OS for my RPi as i only use my RPi for a media server for my family connected to my NFS server running CentOS 6.4
Well I don't think the fork has repos It is just a stripped down version of raspbian.
I guess I will have to buy another SD card and hope it works.
 
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Hey thanks I looked for an embedded section but couldn't find it

Well I don't think the fork has repos It is just a stripped down version of raspbian.
I guess I will have to buy another SD card and hope it works.
if its just a custom installer then that could be the case, if not, then it will need its own repos.
 
  


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