No packages in repositories

[TannerD]

On both 11.04 and 11.10 I have no access to packages no matter what I do. I've added the main repositories but no packages show up after updating Apt-get. I am on the PowerPC port of Kubuntu but I have access to repositories and every single package on 10.04 and 10.10. This happens if I install from both the CD and if I just do an upgrade from 10.10.

[Snowhog]

Take a gander at Where is the PowerPC version of 11.04? I thought that I had read/heard that official support for the PowerPC was dropped.

[TannerD]

Well the PowerPC architecture was officially dropped long long ago but people have been releasing unofficial ports of the latest Ubuntu's/Kubuntu's for a long while. They have a powerpc iso of the latest 12.04 beta even. But it still doesn't explain why the repositories all of a sudden don't work right.

[bra|10n]

On both 11.04 and 11.10 I have no access to packages no matter what I do. I've added the main repositories but no packages show up after updating Apt-get. I am on the PowerPC port of Kubuntu but I have access to repositories and every single package on 10.04 and 10.10. This happens if I install from both the CD and if I just do an upgrade from 10.10.

Then perhaps you should post the contents of your sources.list so we can all see it.
I'm sure there are friendly enough folks here only too willing to help you out.

[TannerD]

This is what's in my sources.list:

# deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release powerpc (20101008)]/ maverick main
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty universe
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-updates universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty multiverse
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-updates multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ maverick-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu maverick-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu maverick partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu maverick partner

## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
## developers who want to ship their latest software.
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty main
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty main

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security main restricted
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security main restricted
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security universe
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security universe
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security multiverse
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ natty-security multiverse
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu natty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu natty main

[Snowhog]

Is there a reason you have both natty and maverick repositories in your sources.list?

[bra|10n]

And as official support had been dropped I was expecting to see perhaps a list of unofficial repositories

I wondered too if the reclassification of Kubuntu has resulted in a cleanout of packages for powerpc?

[TannerD]

Possible leftovers? I haven't edited them myself or used Software Sources. I did however use the do-release-upgrade command in a terminal to upgrade the distribution from Maverick to Natty.

Well even with the fact that Kubuntu is now unofficial it will have access to the official repositories just like most Ubuntu based distros such as Linux Mint. But I was wondering about whether or not they cleaned out the packages. Then I thought about the fact that Maverick still has full access to them? Plus every package available on x86 is available and usable on this computer through that repository on 10.10.

At the moment I'm having a performance problem with the installation. All of a sudden it takes anywhere between 1-infinite hours to fully login and be usable. Until then it's sooo slow and unbearable (It takes an hour to open the Kicker menu) and it didn't used to do this. I thought it was just the fact that KDE was reopening my last session and overloading itself but even when I disabled that and managed to nicely shut it down, it still runs worse than awful..

[bra|10n]

Are you certain that you still have access to these packages in 10.10? Meaning you are able to install a new package for instance?
What I can't get my head around is the fact that if the platform is no longer supported how it can be that you can even install these packages.
I see the case of Linux Mint as different because of this reason.

I can understand how you might be able to add these repositories but not surprised if they even showed 0 packages. Just trying to be logical here.