Wrong default repository URL for Greece, how to change?

Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunnarhj at ubuntu.com
Tue Apr 10 08:47:44 UTC 2018


On 2018-04-10 10:09, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> When I try to perform a package update after installation, I get this error:
> 
> myusername at virtualbox:~$ sudo apt update
> Σφάλμα:1 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
>    403  Forbidden [IP: 83.235.64.44 80]
> Σφάλμα:2 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
>    403  Forbidden [IP: 83.235.64.44 80]
> Σφάλμα:3 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
>    403  Forbidden [IP: 83.235.64.44 80]
> Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
> 
> What happened, is that the default http repository URL for Greece (and
> possibly Cyprus) has the "/ubuntu" path appended to it, while it is
> not needed.
> That is, Ubuntu tries to connect to
> http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu while it should just have used
> http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ (without /ubuntu/) instead.
> 
> The correct settings are (Greece, default repository settings):
> 
> HTTP: http://ubuntu.otenet.gr/              <- without /ubuntu/
> FTP:   ftp://ftp.otenet.gr/ubuntu/
> 
> The question is, how/where do we make this fix?

Open Software & Updates and change to some other server there. 
gr.archive.ubuntu.com isn't even an option there, so it may be new. 
Either a bug in the installer, or the new mirror has not been set up 
correctly.

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