Failed to upgrade

David Curtis dcurtis at uniserve.com
Mon Jul 14 13:26:31 UTC 2008


Ruben Laban wrote:
> On Monday 14 July 2008, Karl-Heinz Schulz wrote:
>> I'm trying to upgrade my distribution but the download is failing.
>>
>> Is the upgrade site not available anymore?
>>
>>
>>
>> charlie at mail:~$ sudo aptitude install update-manager-core
>>
>> Password:
>>
>> Reading package lists... Done
>>
>> Building dependency tree
>>
>> Reading state information... Done
>>
>> Reading extended state information
>>
>> Initializing package states... Done
>>
>> Building tag database... Done
>>
>> The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
>>
>> python-apt python-central python-gnupginterface python-support
>>
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>
>> python-apt python-central python-gnupginterface python-support
>> update-manager-core
>>
>> 0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>
>> Need to get 209kB/233kB of archives. After unpacking 1229kB will be used.
>>
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
>>
>> WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!
>>
>>
>>
>> Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
>>
>> You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that
>>
>> this is what you want to do.
>>
>>
>>
>> python-support update-manager-core python-apt python-central
>> python-gnupginterface
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
>>
>> To continue, enter "Yes"; to abort, enter "No": yes
>>
>> Writing extended state information... Done
>>
>> Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main python-central 0.5.6ubuntu2
>>
>> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
>>
>> Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main python-apt
>> 0.6.19ubuntu9.1
>>
>> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
>>
>> Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main python-support 0.5.3ubuntu1
>>
>> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
>>
>> Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main update-manager-core
>> 0.56~edgy5
>>
>> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
>>
>> charlie at mail:~$
> 
> http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ holds the repositories for old 
> releases.
> 
Please be advised that Edgy is no longer supported and is *not* 
recieving security updates. Fiesty will be EOL in October.

If your on Dapper then you still have till next June. :-)

Dave




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