Problems with US archive?

[stan]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:02:46PM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> stan <stanb at panix.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm trying to build a new machine. I keep getting the following error:
> >
> > Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/multiverse Sources
> > Get:27 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages [1217kB]
> > 36% [27 Packages gzip 0] [26 Packages 238617/3497kB 6%]             
> > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> >
> > When I try to do apt-get update. This is on 6.10 and AMD64.
> >
> > Is there another repository I can use?
> 
> Try the Canadian one.  Basically, the first two letter is the country
> code. 
Thanks, that solved my problem. BTW I had tried to ping the Canadian one
earlier with no luck. Maybe they are upgrading something today.


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