Hoary universe package updating problem

[Rich Rudnick]

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 00:05 +0300, Edgars Jēkabsons wrote:
> Apt-get/Synaptic can't update Hoary universe packages properly.
> 
> This problem has been bugging me for several days. The last time it
> updated ok, it was before Hoary release, so I think I could be missing
> some updates.
> 
> $ sudo apt-get update 
> outputs this:
> 
> Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary Release.gpg [189B]
> Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security Release.gpg [189B]
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary Release
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security Release
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security/main Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/restricted Packages
> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/multiverse Packages
> Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security/restricted Packages
> Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe Packages [2853kB]
> 99% [3 Packages gzip 0]
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe Packages
>   Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Fetched 3B in 0s (4B/s)
> Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/universe/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.
> 
> When I download Packages,gz by hand, it opens properly by Archive
> Manager and the Packages text file is good.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> Edgars Jēkabsons <edgars at way.lv>
> 

Take a look for possible duplicate universe entries
in /etc/apt/sources.list. Had this problem once, and removing the
duplicates fixed the error.