add/remove software

[Erik Schmidt]

it worked!!!

WOOHOOO!!!!!

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 07:16 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:55:22 -0500
> Erik Schmidt <eschmidt90 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Failed to fetch
> > http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/binary-powerpc/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.
> 
> *sigh* don't know why you are getting this.
> 
> I assume your machine is a PPC architecture ( mac or similar )
> 
> Perhaps try removing the "us." prefix from your sources.list lines , re-run
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> 
> then try again  with build-essential ( I only looked at this quickly, but
> it seems only the "main" repository is having trouble with Packages.gz )
> 
> maybe someone else will see something I'm missing here....
> 
> Peter
>