[Ubuntu Chicago] Fwd: Like to pay for hands-on support

[W. Scott Lockwood III]

Hey Rick,

  So, it seems you’re not running 9.04 after all. It looks like you are on
8.x. What I would do at this point, is back up any data you have on the
machine that you want to keep, and install the most recent LTS release from
scratch. Let me know if you need help with that.

--
W. Scott Lockwood III

From: Rick Hedin [mailto:cubsno1 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 6:47 PM
To: W. Scott Lockwood III; ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu Chicago] Fwd: Like to pay for hands-on support

Hello Scott.  Just getting back to this after a long day at work. 
 
Would it be appropriate for me to copy your sources.list file?  I think
that's where the repositories are recorded, and where apt-get gets its
information.  
 
 
               Regards, 
 
               Rick
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Rick Hedin <cubsno1 at gmail.com> wrote:
Good morning, Scott. 
 
I tried sudo apt-get install erlang.  It said "E: Couldn't find package
erlang."  
 
I think my problem is that my sources.list file doesn't have the right
entries.  When I go to System -> Administration -> Update Manager, it says
"New distribution release '9.04' is available."  (I guess I was inaccurate
that I am already at 9.0.4)  When I click Upgrade, it says "Upgrading to
a no longer supported version."  When I click past that, it says "Extracting
the upgrade failed.  There may be a problem with the network or with the
server."  All my interactions with the internet work great.  There is no
firewall (I'm in my house).  I think it's the server.  Specifically, not
pointing to a valid server. 
 
If in the Update Manager, instead of clicking Update, I click Check, it says
"Downloading package information" for a while, then it says "Could not
download all repository indexes."  I think my problem is " . . . ensure the
repository address in the preferences is correct."  It gives me a long list
of complaints, from "Failed to fetch
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid-security/main/binary-i386/P
ackages.gz  404 Not found [IP: 91.189.92.167 80]" through "Failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid-updates/multiverse/source
/Sources.gz  404 Not found [IP: 91.189.92.171 80]"  
I hope this is enough information to enable you to deduce what the problem
is.  I hope your day is productive and pleasant. 
 
 
                 Regards, 
 
                 Rick