new install, packages have checksum mismatch

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 18, 2010, at 15:28, Bryan Murdock wrote:

> I'm new to Mac OS, but I've been using Linux for a while, so I
> installed MacPorts the other day.  Some packages I try to install I
> get a checksum mismatch error.  I'm running Mac OS 10.6.2.  I
> installed macports using the Snow Leopard dmg installer.  I have run
> 'sudo port selfupdate' and that doesn't help.  Mcrypt has the problem,
> as well as groff (dependency of mplayer).
> 
> Here is the regular output from trying to install mcrypt (for example):
> 
> $ sudo port install mcrypt
> --->  Computing dependencies for mcrypt
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for libmcrypt
> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.bz2
> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.bz2
> Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.bz2


Probably a download failure on your end. Please see the FAQ:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#checksums