"make"ing a tarball

[John Vivirito]

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> --- Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
> wrote:
> 
>> > On Fri, 26 May 2006 08:42:53 -0700 (PDT)
>> > maxim wexler <blissfix at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > [snip]
>> > 
>>> > > deb http://www.janw.dommel.be/picprog/ i386/
>>> > > deb-src http://www.janw.dommel.be/picprog/ i386/
>> > 
>> > Third party repositories can play interesting tricks
>> > on you. I suggest you
>> > comment the two lines out, update and try again.
>> > 
>> > Backports might also be causing issues, although I
>> > believe the backports
>> > repos are now OK . Commenting them out can't hurt as
>> > a second try though.
>> > 
>> > Peter
>> > 
> 
> Thanks for the tips. Can you please tell me what this
> is all about? Sorry to lay so much in your lap. I
> adjusted the list file like you said and ran update.
> There is the persistent "gzip" error. And the one
> about not finding the file. What's going on here? I
> wanted to "show upgrades" with the -u switch. This
> didn't work until I entered apt-get -u upgrade. Was
> that correct?
> 
> 
> <...>
> Get:34 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main
> Packages [767kB]
> 80% [29 Sources gzip 0] [34 Packages 657391/767kB 85%]
> [Connecting to archive.u
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Sources
>   Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Get:35 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted
> Sources [1363B]
> 81% [Waiting for headers]                             
>           17.6kB/s 1m38s
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
>   Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Get:36 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe
> Sources [1223kB]
> 83% [36 Sources gzip 0]                               
>            2896B/s 9m58s
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Sources
>   Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Fetched 8077kB in 56m23s (2387B/s)
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
>  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/main/source/Sources.gz
>  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/universe/source/Sources.gz
>  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Reading package lists... Done
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these
> problems
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been
> ignored, or old ones used instead.
> 
> <...>
> booyah at ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get -u upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   linux-image-386 linux-restricted-modules-386
> update-manager
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not
> upgraded.
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these
> problems
> booyah at ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get check
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these
> problems
> booyah at ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   linux-image-386 linux-restricted-modules-386
> update-manager
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not
> upgraded.
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these
> problems
> booyah at ubuntu:~$
> 
> 
> 
the us archives have been giving users problems in the past week or 2
try this command see if it helps
sudo sed -i 's/us\.//g' /etc/apt/sources.list
the above command should take the us. out of the repos after that
command run apt-get update and you should be ok.
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