Hoary universe package updating problem

[Edgars Jēkabsons]

On O , 2005-04-12 at 14:40 -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks for suggestion.

Unfortunately I have only two lines in my sources.list:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe
multiverse 
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary-security main restricted

I tried putting main restricted universe multiverse repositories in
seperate lines, eg: 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary
universe', but that didn't help. 

So the problem still remains.

-- 
Edgars Jēkabsons <edgars at way.lv>