The solution quoted below worked great for my: packages.gz gzip error (1) when doing a system update for ubuntu 7.04
I read several discussions, but the below solution seemed to be the most straight forward and least risky -- and it worked!!! (Being really new to ubuntu, I would never have found this site if a Linux-Buddy hadn't sent me the link. Using the ubuntu provided help links and tools I got nowhere -- things like being referred to: search.ubuntu.com and it never being online are frustrating to say the least. But that is the way all things in the world are at times.) Thanks to you, HymnToLife, and my good friend Mark Ahlstrom at the KTC Meditation Center. Yours in Life, Michael Carr ... Quote: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3686478#post3686478 Originally Posted by HymnToLife Try this : backup your sources.list : Code: sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup open the old one in gedit with Code: gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and delete everything so it's blank, then save it, close gedit and run Code: sudo apt-get update then copy back your old sources.list Code: sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list_backup /etc/apt/sources.list run sudo apt-get update again and see how it goes -- gzip error when updating packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59353 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
