Hi Manuel, I did not find this setting
> Do you have GzipIndexes indexes enabled in apt/aptitude config? anywhere. root's ~/.aptitude/config is: ----8<---- aptitude ""; aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern ""; aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern ""; aptitude::Delete-Unused "false"; aptitude::Auto-Upgrade "true"; aptitude::UI ""; aptitude::UI::Pause-After-Download "OnlyIfError"; aptitude::UI::InfoAreaTabs "false"; ----8<---- I also checked in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* and a grep on GzipIndexes yielded nothing. Where else should I look? Regards Andreas