8.04 update files

[Karl F. Larsen]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>
> --- On Wed, 4/29/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: 8.04 update files
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 1:14 PM
>> I have been using the GUI update software with 8.04 for some
>> long 
>> time. But in recent times the GUI does not work but using
>> sudo aptitude 
>> upgrade has worked just fine. It seems to work in spite of
>> the problems. 
>> Below is some of sudo aptitude update that shows me the
>> Ubuntu file 
>> setup is at fault. Here it is:
>>
>>  W: GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable Release: The
>> following 
>> signatures couldn't be verified because the public key
>> is not available: 
>> NO_PUBKEY A040830F7FAC5991
>> W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ -
>> Release i386 
>> (20080423)]/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
>> Please use 
>> apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get
>> update cannot 
>> be used to add new CD-ROMs
>>
>> W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ -
>> Release i386 
>> (20080423)]/dists/hardy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
>> Please use 
>> apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get
>> update cannot 
>> be used to add new CD-ROMs
>>
>> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been
>> ignored, or old 
>> ones used instead.
>>
>> The call for a CD-ROM is very strange.
>>
>>
>>     
> Karl, either remove the CD-ROM entrie(s) from your sources.list file or from your software sources file so Apt will quit looking for it.  That is not strange and you should know that.
> See if you can find the Public gpg key on  http://dl.google.com and install it.  Then you error messages shoud go away.  You might get better help if you told the list just what gui software you are using to update/upgrade with as there are several.
> HTH.
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>
>
>   
    Sorry you can't read English! This CD-ROM stuff is FROM the Ubuntu 
servers! I am showing what I get from the request with $sudo aptitude 
update which comes FROM the servers.

    So hope you learned something.


Karl