cannot download boot-repair

Asked by Larry Ansell

I booted with my live CD 10.10 ubuntu, got a terminal and copy/pasted from the Boot-repair wiki page

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 3C48D16124B50277AF10D27F32B18A1260D8DA0B
gpg: requesting key 60D8DA0B from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 60D8DA0B: "Launchpad PPA for YannUbuntu" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/ maverick/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/ maverick/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main i386 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package boot-repair
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 3C48D16124B50277AF10D27F32B18A1260D8DA0B
gpg: requesting key 60D8DA0B from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 60D8DA0B: "Launchpad PPA for YannUbuntu" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/ maverick/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/ maverick/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release [39.8kB]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security Release [39.8kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates Release [39.8kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main Sources [106kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Sources [829kB]
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main i386 Packages [330kB]
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/restricted i386 Packages [14B]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Sources [4,370B]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main i386 Packages [1,492kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted i386 Packages [5,992B]
Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/main Sources [179kB]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/restricted Sources [778B]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/main i386 Packages [467kB]
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/restricted i386 Packages [1,797B]
Fetched 3,536kB in 24s (147kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
$ sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package boot-repair

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Best YannUbuntu (yannubuntu) said :
#1

Hello Larry

10.10 is an obsolete version, it is not supported any more, neither by Ubuntu developpers, nor by Boot-Repair developpers.

There is no Boot-Repair package any more for 10.10. Please use Boot-Repair-Disk or Ubuntu-Secure-Remix.

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Larry Ansell (lansell6563) said :
#2

Thanks YannUbuntu, that solved my question.