Re: Re: Squeeze. apt-get update failed to fetch .../binary-i386/Packages.gz

[Alaric <um.167@xtra.co.nz>]

I note you say you have not had any other comment.  I get the same 
error. I still get the standard red gear wheel on the application bar, 
updates are downloaded and installed without problem and the programme 
reports my system is up to date but I still get an orange triangle with 
an exclamation mark in the centre and it reports the 'fetch failed' message.

  I had assumed that 'lint' in the file was the cause.  My problem is 
that I am comparatively new to Debian though I have used Mandrake and 
Mandriva for years.  I don't know which file I need to look at and clear 
out the lint.

	I don't suppose it matters much but I don't like things on my screen 
which I don't understand, can't use and can't get rid of.

	Debian appears to be the only distro which still offers a list of 
suported hardware, that's why I changed.  Mandrake won't print to my 
Brother HL 2040,they no longer offer help unless you sign up for a 
monthly fee and the help I got elsewhere didn't work.  I must say I like 
Debian.

Thanks in advance,  Regards,

Alaric Wood