Bug#206187: marked as done (apt-get update fails to get index package list and therefore does nothing)

09-03-2008, 03:55 PM

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:03:58PM -0230, Lawrence Williams wrote:
> Without more information, I would think the "Waited, for gzip but it wasn't
> there" message meant that gzip wasn't installed.
>
> "apt-get install gzip" should have fixed that, should it not?

Think again :-)

Hint: man 5 deb

Cheers,
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Michael Schutte <michi@uiae.at>