[winswitch] Trouble installing Xpra 0.17.5 on Ubuntu 16.04

[Philip Loewen]

Super helpful, as always. This suggestion worked for me. Thanks again!

- Philip

On 2016-08-24 10:53 PM, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote:
> 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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