That mirror has been very slow for months now. I suggest switching to an other one. Even the us mirror seems to do better. However the best results we got is from gulus.usherbrooke.ca ( Sherbrooke University ) To switch: cd /etc sudo cat sources.list | sed s/ca.archive.ubuntu.com/gulus.usherbrooke.ca/g > newlist sudo cat sources.list > sources.list.bak sudo cat newlist > sources.list sudo apt-get update Chris Charles MacDonald wrote: > I have recently started to configure a new laptop with Kubuntu 8.10 > > I have been going slow, asking for a coupple of packeges a day, and it > seems to keep trying to get them for me from ca.archve.ubuntu.com/ > > The only problem is that it has been downloading at a rate of about > 2kbs. this afternoon I started to get a 80 meg combination (asking for > one packge alutomaticaly pulls in in a lot of dependancies.) which is > still only about 1/3 of the way through. and three packages so far > showed as "error", I don't know if it will ignore them or try later. > > IS there a way to get it to try more than one archive site? How? am I > misisng somthing? > > At this rate it will take mea month or more to get my wife's new > computer into service. > > -- CREDIL Logo Christian R. Meloche crm [ at ] credil [ dot ] org +1 613 693 0684 #3201 F3018 - 283 Alexandre Taché Gatineau (QC) J9A 1L8 CANADA Sustainable Innovation // Innovation Durable