Error in installing wget

[Colin Law]

On 12 June 2012 16:16, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/11/2012 10:51 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
>>
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>> On 10.06.2012 21:55, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Harsha Natarajan
>>> <harsha.natarajan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to install wget to install GridFTP server, but I am
>>>> not able to do so as I am encountering the following error....
>>>>
>>>> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! wget
>>>> Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y Err
>>>> http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main wget 1.11.4-2ubuntu1 404
>>>> Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.179 80] Failed to fetch
>>>>
>>>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/w/wget/wget_1.11.4-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
>>>>
>>>>
>> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.179 80]
>>>
>>> Jaunty?!
>>>
>> Seems so.
>>
>> Jaunty isn't supported anymore and you should upgrade your Ubuntu to
>> newer release.
>>
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> It seems Maverick is not supported anymore either - I would suggest the
> latest release, unless there is a reason you do not want it. Sorry if this
> has been posted before, but you could try replacing the sources.list file
> (the archives.ubuntu.com parts) with old-releases.ubuntu.com. Thanks!

It is always worth checking previous posts in the thread before
replying, then you would not have to apologise.

Colin