1st let me say that I've begun to really like antiX...
I multi-boot it along with Arch, Sabayon, PCLinuxOS, & Xubuntu. Of these, antiX is the fastest boot, and seems to take the least time to load an application... It occasionally seizes up early in the startup sequence. But never twice in a row, so thats not an issue...

However today I happened to be running antiX and wanted to do something that required a package that I hadn't yet installed. But when I ran"apt-get update" I got this error message:

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

The complete screen output can be found at:


My sources.list contents are at:


What am I doing wrong?

jtwdyp wrote: What am I doing wrong?

You arent' doing anything wrong. There is something wrong with the repo you are updating from. Possibly files in that repo are being updated at the same time giving you the hash sum mismatch error.
This happens to me also from time to time and I simply change the repo from the"us" designation to another...usually the"de" repo
eg: Usually another apt-get update solves the problem.

@jtwdyp: I agree. There have been some checksum issues on the US mirror sites - at least there were over the weekend. I switched to either ca or gr and both of those worked fine. I generally keep a few alternative mirror sites readily available for times like that, though it is not a frequent thing; it may happen several times a year and you'll see it if you are constantly upgrading, but then you could go months without seeing such messages at all. In any case, try another ftp site, such as ftp.ca.debian.org, ftp.de.debian.org, or ftp.gr.debian.org, to name three of them.

Thanks guys... So I guess the us mirror is occasionally unreliable... {sigh} Yet if this is only an occasional thing, then I think that since I'm IN the us I should maybe keep my default mirror set to the us one... (which incidentally did work today). But next time it acts up all I'll need to do is comment it out and uncomment one of the three replacement mirror lines that now exist in my sources.list...

I multi boot 5 different distros on this PC. All of which are either rolling release model distro's or else have documented way of upgrading to next release without starting over from scratch. {I do dislike rebuilding my personal user environment}

I try to remember to do a:
or at least a:
( or in the case of Arch & Sabayon, the equivalent pacman & equo commands )

for each distro on a monthly basis... That includes antiX so I expect the advise about alternate mirrors will be useful again from time to time...

Thanks again