Re: error with apt-get update

[Vijaya S <vijaya@picopeta.com>]

no it didnt happen either with apt-get update.
I treid by moving *.bin in /var/cache/apt and did apt-cache update ,it says
invalid operation

Regards,
Vijaya
John Smith wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:49, Vijaya S wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > When i try to do apt-get update i get the following error:-
> > 99% [1 Packages gzip 9994240]
> > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
> >
> > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
> > Err http://xyz.com unstable/main Packages
> >   Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> > Fetched 3183kB in 2s (1304kB/s)
> > Failed to fetch
> > http://xyz.com/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://xyz.com unstable/main
> > Packages
> > (/var/lib/apt/lists/xyz.com_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> > - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://xyz.com unstable/main
> > Packages
> > (/var/lib/apt/lists/xyz.com_debian_dists_unstable_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.
> >
> > How do i fix it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Vijaya
> >
>
> Hi,
>
>         are you perhaps getting your packages through an apt-proxy?
> It's a know bug there and you can overcome it simply by running
> 'apt-get update' again.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jan.
>
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