apt-get update error

[Nigel Ridley]

Tez wrote:
> Hi,
> This isn't a huge problem but it gets annoying.
> When I do a "sudo apt-get update" everything goes fine except when it
> gets to
> http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
> It says:
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Errhttp://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
>   Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> 
> And at the end it says:
> Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
> Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Reading package lists... Done
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
> ones used instead.
> 
> This has been going on for a while now, but the odd thing is if I do:
> "wget
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> -O -|gzip -dc > filename"
> it works fine, no errors.
> What command dose apt-get use to decompress the Packages.gz file that's
> not working?
> 
> Anyway It's more of a curiosity since updates are in the dapper-updates
> repository which works fine, it's just confusing to me.
> 
> Tez
> 
> 

Sometimes I also get an error like yours and another about duplicate 
files (can't remember exactly how it is). I just hit the 'up' arrow (to 
re-enter the sudo apt-get update command) and then hit enter.
It usually always works.
YMMV

Blessings,

Nigel

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