[winswitch] Trouble installing Xpra 0.17.5 on Ubuntu 16.04

[Antoine Martin]

On 25/08/16 12:04, Philip Loewen via shifter-users wrote:
> Thanks for this excellent software!
> 
> Something strange happens when I try to update xpra on Ubuntu 16.04. My
> usual steps produce an error message that makes me think the problem is
> somewhere at winswitch.org. Is it? (If not, what should I do?) Here's
> what I see:
> 
> 
> $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   xpra
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1,673 kB of archives. After unpacking 14.3 kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
> Get: 1 http://winswitch.org xenial/main amd64 xpra amd64 0.17.5-r13454-1
> [1,673 kB]
> Err http://winswitch.org xenial/main amd64 xpra amd64 0.17.5-r13454-1
>   Writing more data than expected (1672748 > 1672628)
> E: Failed to fetch
> http://winswitch.org/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/xpra_0.17.5-r13454-1_amd64.deb:
> Writing more data than expected (1672748 > 1672628)
Sorry about that, I built the packages twice by mistake so your RPM
headers ended up pointing to the first build but the packages you
downloaded is the second set...

I am in the process of fixing this by forcing a full rebuild with a
newer release number but this will take a few hours.
Until then, you should be able to just do:
apt-get clean
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

For the RPM repos, that would be:
yum clean all && yum update

Cheers
Antoine

> 
> 
> Gratefully,
> Philip
> 
> On 2016-08-24 03:57 AM, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This update contains a large number of fixes, but none of them are
>> critical. There is no urgency to update if you are not affected by these
>> issues.
>>
>> The webcam forwarding fixes are probably the most noticeable ones.
>> There are a number of packaging fixes: workarounds for OSX El Capitan
>> (where root is not really root..), some FreeBSD fixes, etc
>> Because of the longer than average gap with the previous update and this
>> one, there are quite a few library updates (ffmpeg, pillow, gstreamer,
>> etc) and also some RPM packaging updates (trying to workaround some
>> Fedora conflicts, naming updates).
>>
>> One long-standing bug still present in this release is the SSH password
>> mode with OSX clients, this is finally fixed in the current beta release
>> but may not get applied to the v0.17.x branch because the change would
>> be too intrusive. Until then, use SSH keys, TCP mode, or try the beta
>> builds.
>>
>>
>> Release notes:
>> * fix sound codec order: prevent incompatibilities with gdp payloader
>> * fix internal error with some values for the window title option
>> * fix crash on FreeBSD caused by buggy netifaces package
>> * fix strict build on FreeBSD, use correct Xvfb command
>> * fix video region statistics not correctly reset
>> * fix OSX PKG installation errors on El Capitan and later
>> * fix OSX installation warnings
>> * fix X11 keyboard layout setup code corner case handling
>> * fix VP9 speed setting to prevent excruciatingly slow compression
>> * fix honour socket-dirs value found in configuration files
>> * fix Fedora 25+ builds hanging during printer probing
>> * fix unnecessary delay in network layer of MS Windows clients
>> * fix xvid encoder debug overlay (now only enabled with debugging)
>> * fix x265 compilation with python3
>> * fix cursor errors with no data to send
>> * fix v4l2 module build on older platforms, add missing build switch
>> * fix CentOS 7.1 cryptography packaging dependency
>> * fix misleading cryptography import error message
>> * fix logging loops with 'network' and 'crypto' debug flags
>> * fix spurious sound log messages on some platforms (ie: CentOS 6.x)
>> * fix webcam spurious warnings when already disabled
>> * fix webcam skewed picture
>> * fix size calculations for the 1 pixel bottom edge of video areas
>> * fix heavy import with side effects for shadow servers
>> * fix MS Windows shadow servers picture corruption
>> * fix jpeg wrongly included in auto-refresh encodings
>> * fix compatibility with ffmpeg 3.1+, warn but don't fail
>> * fix socket-dir option not being honoured
>> * fix log dir in commented out Xvfb example
>> * fix build on some non US locales
>>
>> The source:
>> https://xpra.org/src/
>> Binaries/repositories:
>> https://winswitch.org/downloads/
>> Direct binary downloads:
>> https://xpra.org/dists/
>> Beta:
>> https://xpra.org/beta/
>>
>> Cheers
>> Antoine
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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