Comment 12 for bug 1430011

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 12:10:06PM -0000, Olorunlona Juwon Enoch wrote:
> Hello everyone. I am a newbie to the Linux community and I've been
> trying to update/upgrade my Xenial (16.04) distro all to no avail. I've
> read several posts on this issue and landing on this page has finally
> made me decided that my 'Unable to fetch archives' error is certainly a
> bug. I'm from Nigeria and every time I try the apt-get update, apt-get
> dist-upgrade etc features, I change to the best server and again to main
> server but it just seem to be wasting data giving me the same kind of
> error even after purge and clean commands. Please, if a baackport is all
> that will work please I need one and a full guide to getting this error
> eradicated using this backport. Thanks

I believe this bug is fixed in Xenial. So if you're having an issue, it
is likely something else. Perhaps your Internet connection is altering
or corrupting downloads?