<div>>On 1/19/07, stan <<a href="mailto:stanb@panix.com">stanb@panix.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm trying to build a new machine. I keep getting the following error: Hit <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com</a> edgy-backports/multiverse Sources Get:27 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com"> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com</a> 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? </blockquote></div> For GUI method Under GNOME: Go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager->Settings->Repositories Under Your Ubuntu 6.10 tab: Go to "Download From" Change to "Main Server" then close. and just "Reload" to reset everything. If you are running Ubuntu without X. It should look like this under your /etc/apt/sources.list for Ubuntu 6.10. deb <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ </a> edgy main restricted multiverse universe deb-src <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> edgy main restricted multiverse universe ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the ## distribution. deb <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> edgy-updates main restricted multiverse universe deb-src <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ </a> edgy-updates main restricted multiverse universe ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe' ## repository. ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in ## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security ## team. # deb <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> edgy universe # deb-src <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> edgy universe ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports' ## repository. ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features. ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team. # deb <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/"> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse # deb-src <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> edgy-security main restricted multiverse universe deb-src <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu </a> edgy-security main restricted multiverse universe # deb <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> edgy-security universe # deb-src <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu"> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> edgy-security universe Hope this helps, -- JD. Brown