Problem with apt-get update

Adam Membrey membreya at optusnet.com.au
Thu Apr 7 23:22:05 UTC 2005


On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 09:17 am, albi at scii.nl wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 09:07:50 +1000
>
> Adam Membrey <membreya at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > I've been trying to do a sudo apt-get update for the past 12 hours and
> > I'm  constantly getting:
> >
> > Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages [632kB]
> > 99% [3 Packages gzip 0] [Waiting for headers]
> > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> > Err http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages
> >   Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
>
> try a mirror ?
> e.g. au.archive.ubuntu.com

Many thanks :)
Still bamboozled by why a.u.c didn't work :|
-- 
There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that of
paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write.




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list