Humanity Icon Theme Update issue

What Ubuntu Server release (i.e., version) are you using?

Can you post all the text from the command-line? If you're using a text-only console (rather than, for example, SSHing in from a graphical machine), then you can use the script command to log it to a file, then post the contents. (See http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man1/script.1.html for Lucid, or http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/en/man1/script.1.html for Maverick.)

Please note also that while you can--and should be able--to install ubuntu-desktop on an Ubuntu Server system, you probably should not do so. A lot of the time when people do this, they either need the benefits of a dedicated server with increased performance and security and shouldn't install a GUI, or they don't need those benefits and should instead be using Ubuntu Desktop Edition (which can run the same services that Ubuntu Server can run). See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerGUI, and also https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+question/142347 (search for the text "Finally...").

Hi Elian, Thanks for your response. Please see below

Get:45 http://ng.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main libkpathsea5 i386 2009-7 [129kB]
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The Humanity-icon-theme update keep going in a loop. I have to Ctrl C to stop the update after more than 30 minutes of the unsuccessful download

OK, first go to the /etc/apt directory, and back up sources.list:

cd /etc/apt
sudo cp sources.list sources.list.old

Now, open sources.list up in an editor. This uses nano:

sudo nano -w sources.list

(The -w flag disables wrapping, so that when you're editing this configuration file, confusion does not arise about whether or not something is a line break.)

In the text editor, remove the ng. from each URL (so the URL's read http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/). This switches you from your regional server, which you seem to be having problems downloading humanity-icon-theme from, to the main (global) server. Save the file, quit the text editor, and try again. If it doesn't work, then please post the contents of that file (which can be seen on the Terminal by running the command "cat /etc/apt/sources.list"). If it doesn't work but behaves differently from before--for example, if it gives an error message--then please post the output of the apt-get command as well.

Hi Eliah, It still doesn't work. It seems I am the only one having this problem. Can you download Humanity-icon-theme from your system? I have tried on 2 systems now and the same problem. All other updates download perfectly except Humanity-Icon. Below is the content of my source list

akeem@akeem-desktop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)]/ lucid main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates main restricted multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main restricted multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security universe
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner
akeem@akeem-desktop:~$

Thank you!

"Can you download Humanity-icon-theme from your system?"

I am able to download the file http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/humanity-icon-theme/humanity-icon-theme_0.5.3.3_all.deb in a web browser. Furthermore, I have a virtual machine running Natty Server, so I snapshotted that machine (so that all these changes are easily revertible) and started installing ubuntu-desktop on it (the installation is running right now). There have been no problems during so far, and all the packages to be installed have been downloaded, including humanity-icon-theme (though you're almost certainly not running Natty, which uses humanity-icon-theme 0.5.3.10 rather than 0.5.3.3, so I haven't quite reproduced your actions). This was using http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu, but since you tried two different servers (plus I was able to download the file in a web browser from the central server), it doesn't look like this is a server-specific problem.

I do think I may have some idea, though, as to why this problem is occurring. When you run apt-get, it attempts to download and install maverick packages. But your /etc/apt/sources.list file shows that your system is configured to use the lucid software sources. This version discrepancy is a bad thing...but also, a very strange thing. Let's figure out its cause, and that will probably lead the way to solving this problem installing humanity-icon-theme.

First of all, are you sure the computer on which you edited /etc/apt/sources.list (and from which you then posted that file's contents) is the same as the computer on which you're experiencing this problem? I'm guessing that you are sure, but this is worth asking about, since sometimes people make mistakes with remote login shells. (It's easy to get confused when you have a lot of Terminal windows open with ssh sessions--it's happened to me.)

If you are sure of that, then please run the following three commands on the machine affected by this problem and report the output (you can use script for this, if you like):

lsb_release -a
ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d
apt-cache policy

Please also let me know what version of Ubuntu Server you're running (yes, it is possible in rare cases for lsb_release to misreport that), as well as describing what technique you used to install it, or to upgrade to it if you did that.

(By the way, as I expected, my installation of ubuntu-desktop on my Natty Server virtual machine finished, including successful installation of humanity-icon-theme, and the GUI works without problems.)

Thanks Eliah!
I discovered the issue was with my Proxy! I bypassed the proxy and i am good now. I also have installed Natty.
Thanks!