[Synaptic-devel] MD5 sum mismatches with installing packages on F9

[Nigel Henry]

I've been using apt, and synaptic since Fedora Core 1, and also with my 
Debian, and Debian based installs, but for the first time I have a problem 
that I can't resolve with synaptic on Fedora 9.

Both Fedora 8, and Fedora 9's servers were compromised a while back, and prior 
to that I'd had no problems using apt-get, or synaptic. The servers 
eventually came back on line, and both apt-get, and synaptic continue to work 
as before with Fedora 8, but with Fedora 9 I have a problem. Apt-get works 
ok, but synaptic, when trying to install packages, downloads the packages, 
seems to verify the GPG keys, but then complains that there is an MD5 sum 
mismatch.

As an example, trying to install Qsynth with synaptic, I get the MD5 sum 
mismatch, and the package is not installed. An apt-get install qsynth has no 
problems installing the package, so there is clearly no problem with the MD5 
sums. Then I do an apt-get remove qsynth, and try to re-install qsynth using 
synaptic. Again I get MD5 sum mismatches, and the package won't install.

I've tried removing synaptic with an apt-get remove synaptic, then 
re-installing it, but it doesn't remove all the files that were installed 
when synaptic was initially installed, so that , for example,synaptic's 
history still shows up on the re-install.

I was hoping to completely remove synaptic, and all files connected with it, 
then re-install it, like it had never been installed before, and hopefully 
resolve this problem with the MD5 sum mismatches when trying to install 
packages with synaptic.

Any suggestions on how to procede would be very welcome.

Nigel.