Problem with apt-get update

[audriusb at homelan.lt]

Quoting Adam Membrey <membreya at optusnet.com.au>:

> 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)
>
> doing a sudo tcpdump -lvv |grep ubuntu gives the following:
>
> 09:06:52.926855 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 65174, offset 0, flags [DF], length:
> 64) 192.168.0.6.35070 > dns.meb.optusnet.com.au.domain: [bad udp cksum cdc3!]
> 11535+ A? archive.ubuntu.com. (36)
>
>
> Anyone able to suggest how to go about fixing this ?
>
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Package is corrupted or you got a network error during download phase. Simply
repeat ap-get command. It will help in second case. Download the source and
bild a package yourself if your errror looks permanent. Follow the
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html#s-source
instructions.
Write a letter to package maintainer if source package fails too. You must to
install a package from tarBall in this case. Download *.tar.gz or tar.bz2 files
from home page and do ./configure, make, make install. Last command requires
root rights. Use sudo. At last you must to inform the APT system about manual
installation. Follow
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html#s-equivs
doing this job.

Gediminas Bukauskas