May be I am putting this wrong. I have this problem: for some packages apt-get retries download endlessly (but does not get stuck), like this:
Need to get 19.3 MB/20.0 MB of archives.After this operation, 28.7 kB of additional disk space will be used.Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main linux-firmware all 1.95.1 [19.3 MB]Get:2 http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main linux-firmware all 1.95.1 [19.3 MB]Get:3 http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main linux-firmware all 1.95.1 [19.3 MB]Get:4 http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main linux-firmware all 1.95.1 [19.3 MB]Get:5 http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main linux-firmware all 1.95.1 [19.3 MB]It is able to complete the download, but keeps on retrying to get linux-firmware forever. Hitting Ctrl-C works, but I can not complete the upgrade. The same thing happens with some other packages (for example openjdk-7-jre-headless).
I am using a VirtualBox VM and I can download those packages from a browser, but it takes very long to complete the download (some sort of network connectivity issue). I get a decent connection to the mirror though.
Is there a fix or workaround for this?
