This is an abridged and revised version of my personal report from DrupalCon 2007 in Barcelona, where I was writing on groups.drupal.org/sweden during the course of the event.

When I was updating Ubuntu on my laptop today, both Synaptic and apt-get update returned the error message Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1). Since it took me a while to figure out what was going on, I thought I should share what I found and also the very simple solution.

I have been using Gnu/Linux since June 1995. That is just a year after Linux 1.0 was released and less than four years after Linux was announced by Linus Torvalds.