Yet Another Repositories Not Updating,..

[teastman]

After reading through the forum searches the last couple days I'm just not getting something. Dummy Alert - I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Particulars on LAPTOP
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=quantal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.10"
Running KDE Platform Version 4.9.2
HD= ATA ST750 LM022 HN-M7 (reports 700 GB)
I believe this Acer Aspire is running 32 gig of ram.

Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 58
Stepping: 9
CPU MHz: 782.000
BogoMIPS: 3392.49
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 256K
L3 cache: 3072K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3

I am now getting some update errors I simply don't understand. I'm getting a BUNCH of 404 not found errors after months with no hiccups at all. This happens in BOTH Muon as well as Synaptic package handlers. (I use synaptic mostly)

Following are results after switching the source to the “MAIN server” but I get similar errors when I have the source set to “Server for United States” as well as choosing any other server in the list (after reading that advice in the forums here).

When I choose “Select Best Server” under “Other” it goes through reading all the possible servers yet returns no recommended servers. Again this happens in both Synaptic as well as Muon. I do have internet connectivity as I'm sitting here on the forum with you guys.

I went to the Ubuntu Sources List Generator http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/ to maybe rebuild a “sources.list” but my 12.10 is not in the list. Only 12.04 and 14.04. So I did NOT rebuild that sources.list. It just smells like something else went clunk.

Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Okay so something went clunk as far as how the repositories are updated.
The CLI "sudo apt-get update" returns much the same error list with not many “HIT” and a lot of “IGNORE” and a whole herd of the 404 not found errors. This all started when I tried to update Chrome about a week ago.

[Rog132]

Earlier: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...Life-on-May-16


The Kubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) is not supported.

The Quantal repositories were removed: 2014-04-29 ( http://packages.ubuntu.com/ ) - to the old releases.

AskUbuntu - How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release?: http://askubuntu.com/questions/91815...ported-release

[teastman]

Earlier: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...Life-on-May-16


The Kubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) is not supported.

The Quantal repositories were removed: 2014-04-29

Ah,.. well that pretty much explains the clunk. Thank you for the quick response. Guess I'm upgrading my dual boot to 14.04. Is upgrading from 12.10 to 14.04 recommended or just go for the nuke-n-pave and do a complete re-install?

[Rod J]

You can upgrade from 12.10 to 14.04 but I wouldn't recommend it. You first need to upgrade to 13.04 then 13.10 and finally 14.04. It's just not worth the trouble and possible problems doing it this way.

You'd be better to do a clean install of 14.04. It's relatively easy if you have a separate /home partition, but in any case back up any important data first.

[teastman]

Thanks Rod,.. that's the direction I'll be taking. Past experience concurs with your thoughts. :-) I have some other install questions but I'll start a new thread for those. Thanks again.