| Upgrading Ubuntu Feisty now that its end of lifed |
I have a machine I neglected to upgrade before Feisty was EOLed. This was a problem, because as part of the EOL process they removed the main, universe and multiverse directories from the archive, which means mirrors don't carry them any more either. This made the upgrade tool fail, because it couldn't download all of the meta data.
Resolution? Comment the out of /etc/apt/sources.list.
posted at: 20:28 | path: /linux/ubuntu | permanent link to this entry
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#1
Michael Carden
Comment the what? Don't leave us in suspense!
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Mary
This seems to be really poorly documented, it comes up everywhere and screws over lots of people. Packages (and CD images) for old Ubuntu releases are archived at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/
So you'd (well, some version of you that hadn't solved this problem already) want a sources.list line that looks like:
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-security main restricted universe multiverse