Updating 14.04.03

[Bret Busby]

On 19/04/2021, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a really old system that now I wish to update.
> When I do "apt update" I get errors
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-backports/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages
>  Connection failed
>
> This is because the Packages file is now a gz file and not just Packages.
>
> But how do I fix that so it can update ?
>
> Jerry
>


With the most superior version of Ubuntu; 16.04, coming up to End Of
Life in the next week or so, and, the significant changes from that
version to the later LTS versions, I am surprised that the two
questions gave not yet been put in this thread (I do not remember
seeing the questions being put);

1. Why are you still using 14.04, and, importantly,

2. Why do you want to try to update 14.04, rather than simply perform
a clean install of the latest LTS version (20.04), or, the upcoming
21.04?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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