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Tried to install apps and failed (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by fr_mg@lemmy.world to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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Since a week ago tried to install Jerboa, Voyager and Unciv; all failed. Using f-droid 1.18.0.

Installing Voyager or Jerboa from playstore works fine.

Is it muy phone or there is an issue in "i do not know"?

Thanks.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Seems like the ftp.agdsn.de mirror might be currently down or unreachable for you.

If you go into Settings -> Repositories -> F-Droid, there's a list of mirrors, where you can turn the ftp.agdsn.de mirror off.

[–] fr_mg@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did it, worked fine,thank you.

Updated Ghostcommander, Joplin, MuPDF and Moshidon.

I did not know about that repo, where could i find that kind of info? Of course here, bit i mean is there a RSS or a web site?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It seems to be hosted by these people: https://agdsn.de/sipa/news/?locale=en

Basically, it's a non-profit club by university students from Dresden, Germany, which provide all kinds of IT services for other students, but also happen to use their server capacity to mirror the F-Droid repo.

I don't think that website contains any information about the mirror itself, aside from the generic page that any F-Droid repo provides: https://ftp.agdsn.de/fdroid/repo/

But well, there's not really much to say about a mirror repo anyways. It just mirrors the contents of the official F-Droid repo, so it contains exactly the same apps. It exists to help reduce the load on the official F-Droid server. Via checksums, it can also be ensured that the mirror server offers the correct files for download, so you don't even have to trust it.

Normally, if a mirror goes down or is unreachable, your F-Droid client should just select another mirror and download from there. I don't know why that didn't work here...

[–] fr_mg@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am confused, these are now the repos in my config settings. So, if the first two (four?) are "official" the question stays: why failed?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Wait, why did you add another repo? 😅

You should only need the first four...