Repository problems?

Jon Dixon dixon.jon at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 14:21:17 UTC 2005


Hi Steve

Errors like this are often server side, especially if you've not
changed anything apt/repository related.

Try again later - they're bound to fix it.

- Jon

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:55:55 +0000, Steve Haines <haines at ita.com.py> wrote:
> This morning "apt-get update" returned some errors marked "bad header
> line". Is the problem on my end, or with Ubuntu? Here are the ones that
> bombed:
> 
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages
>   Bad header line
> 
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Release
>   Bad header line
> 
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/restricted Packages
>   Bad header line
> 
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe Packages
>   Bad header line
> 
> Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Bad header line
> Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/main/binary-i386/Release
> Bad header line
> Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Bad header line
> Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Bad header line
> 
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