W: Couldn't stat source package .. hoary universe

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Mon Mar 21 13:17:19 CST 2005


Decided to stop installing and check out the box.  Dabodev is something 
I like playing with, so I try to install it's deps.  reportlab isn't 
found, so I'll enable universe and see if it is there.  thats when 
things went south.


carl at ubuntu:~/temp$ sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb reportlab wxpython
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
python-mysqldb is already the newest version.
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com 
hoary/universe Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hoary_universe_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Couldn't find package reportlab


carl at ubuntu:~/temp$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
# un-# the 2 universe lines, :wq

carl at ubuntu:~/temp$ grep -v "^#" /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary universe

deb http://192.168.1.22/ubuntu hoary main restricted


carl at ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://192.168.1.22 hoary Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://192.168.1.22 hoary Release
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hoary Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hoary Release
Ign http://192.168.1.22 hoary/main Packages
Ign http://192.168.1.22 hoary/restricted Packages
Hit http://192.168.1.22 hoary/main Packages
Hit http://192.168.1.22 hoary/restricted Packages
Fetched 2B in 0s (14B/s)
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/Release 
  Unable to find expected entry  universe/binary-i386/Packages in 
Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
Reading Package Lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com 
hoary/universe Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hoary_universe_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
ones used instead.

carl at ubuntu:~/temp$ wget 
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/Release
--14:02:13--  http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/Release
            => `Release'
Resolving us.archive.ubuntu.com... 216.165.129.138
Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com[216.165.129.138]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 19,876 [text/plain]

100%[====================================>] 19,876        --.--K/s

14:02:13 (352.17 KB/s) - `Release' saved [19,876/19,876]

carl at ubuntu:~/temp$ md5sum Release
82039078f65a4af54ec11df772c96b3c  Release


Carl K



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