Debian 5 broken packages???

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alex.barylski
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Debian 5 broken packages???

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This is really irritating me...i downloaded what I believe to be the latest Debian stable release (V5).

I am constantly being bombed by errors like:

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server:/etc# apt-get install --fix-missing mysql-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  mysql-server-5.0
Suggested packages:
  tinyca
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mysql-server mysql-server-5.0
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 26.5MB/26.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 83.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca lenny/main mysql-server-5.0 5.0.51a-24 [26.5MB]
Fetched 299B in 0s (796B/s)
Failed to fetch http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/debia ... 4_i386.deb  Size mismatch
I have tried running update as well as --fix-missing but neither work and I am still getting these annoying errors which is preventing me from installing mysql server on a machine which I need it installed on ASAP.

Should I update my sources.list file to use other sources or is it because Debian 5 is so new it's not completely tested? What do I do here I'm at wits end and tired of Debian already. :P

Cheers,
A
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Re: Debian 5 broken packages???

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Did you run "apt-get update" prior installing?
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alex.barylski
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Re: Debian 5 broken packages???

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EDIT | Turns out the problem was a firewall or similar interceptor...for some reason when I connected the computer directly to the Net everything solved itself.

This network topology is so complex I was literally looking for a needle in a haystack but without the ability to freely sift through the haystack...
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