Have tried to install LXLE 18.04.3 64 bit, but when I try to update or upgrade I get hash errors, and cannot install Firefox or Thunderbird without errors. Installing the 32 bit version works fine on the same hardware. Any thoughts?
$ sudo apt-get install firefox Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Recommended packages: xul-ext-ubufox The following NEW packages will be installed: firefox 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 269 not upgraded. Need to get 52.4 MB of archives. After this operation, 203 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 firefox amd64 75.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 [52.4 MB] Err:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 firefox amd64 75.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Hash Sum mismatch Hashes of expected file: - SHA256:83af1124bad38787a609875bec01b702a558a78549c05c4df01e9cef0284b479 - SHA1:5a296fc6ba688a23610fd68c438b4ce780e62f14 [weak] - MD5Sum:5926a9f7f324ca7bed06f18079be289d [weak] - Filesize:52384508 [weak] Hashes of received file: - SHA256:b3958acd3201f3d020c119752cc921ecc185f10cef10adb3e472076829e8e2f7 - SHA1:00a54db291684a9681469e758b86ef52334bab56 [weak] - MD5Sum:1b5500fb6310ca68aa1002bb8b48241e [weak] - Filesize:52384508 [weak] Last modification reported: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:36:40 +0000 Fetched 52.4 MB in 5s (10.5 MB/s) E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_75.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.d... Hash Sum mismatch Hashes of expected file: - SHA256:83af1124bad38787a609875bec01b702a558a78549c05c4df01e9cef0284b479 - SHA1:5a296fc6ba688a23610fd68c438b4ce780e62f14 [weak] - MD5Sum:5926a9f7f324ca7bed06f18079be289d [weak] - Filesize:52384508 [weak] Hashes of received file: - SHA256:b3958acd3201f3d020c119752cc921ecc185f10cef10adb3e472076829e8e2f7 - SHA1:00a54db291684a9681469e758b86ef52334bab56 [weak] - MD5Sum:1b5500fb6310ca68aa1002bb8b48241e [weak] - Filesize:52384508 [weak] Last modification reported: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:36:40 +0000 E: Unable to fetch some archives, try running apt-get update or apt-get --fix-missing.
Thanks very much for the reply. Really appreciate the time and attention. My apologies for not getting back to you sooner, but have just now been able to explore the various solutions proposed. While the majority of them did not solve the problem, the following did: