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Hi,
I've been trying to get my Ubuntu system off the ground and operational, but I am hindered by Synaptic/apt's refusal to work. I have the repositories that I want enabled, and when I click "refresh" in Synaptic or run "apt-get update" from the command line, I get errors like these:
Error reading from server - read (104 Connection reset by peer)
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
after each file downloads. Any ideas what is going on here?
And what I want to be able to do is to install the XFree-86-devel package that is mysteriously not on my Ubuntu CD and is preventing me from watching videos with Xine or MPlayer. These repository addresses came default, and they are confirmed on the Ubuntu site. I've looked through the directories over HTTP, and the "Package.gz" or whatever the file is called that I think apt wants is there, so I'm not sure what the problem is.
with that /etc/apt/sources.list i was able to get XFree86 up and running and even able to get the newest nvidia drivers installed and configured to run under KDE.
hope that helps. you might want to post the errors you are getting when you run apt-get update or your apt-get install mplayer or what ever you are after.
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