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Cannot upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10

Asked by Ken

I cannot upgrade Automatix2 or upgrade to 7.10 because of this.

The problem displayed is:

W: Failed to fetch http://www.getautomatix.com/apt/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/automatix2_1.1-4.13-7.04feisty_i386.deb

  404 Not Found

I've tried so many times that I now believe it's not there server problem. How can I solve this please ? when I go to www.getautomatix.com
it quickly diverts to another site.

I'm not that worried about Automatix only wish to carry on the upgrade path of Ubuntu

Thanks Ken

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Best Matt Darcy (matt-darcy) said : 		#1

you are using automatix

1.) automatix is NOTHING to do with ubuntu, and therefore not part of the install process
2.) automatix change your ubuntu system so may break your install
3.) the URL http://www.getautomatix.com is nothing to do with or supported by ubuntu.

Remove all references from automatix in your /etc/apt/sources.list and update with apt-get update, then re-try the update.

However as a side command I would suggest doing a clean install due to the fact that automatix can effect/change the way your system works and make it unsupportable.

There is no reason to use automatix, it is basiclly a script to do manual instructions from ubuntu documentation.

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Matt Darcy (matt-darcy) said : 		#2

FYI - the wrong URL IS a server problem with the automatix product (automatix is dead and no longer developed by the way)

This problem is nothing to do with ubuntu, but a problem that you chose an unsupported 3rd party application that has now been killed off and it appears that server mirror no long hosts the files you need.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#3

Hi Ken,

Best solution in your case is to order the Ubuntu 8.10 CD's here, for free:

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

You will receive the CD's in your mailbox at home, without having to pay for the shipping costs.

Then you can use the Ubuntu 8.10 installation CD to overwrite the existing Ubuntu 7.04 system files, while preserving the /home directories and user settings. This should not be a problem.

Regards,

Mark

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Ken (kenallcott) said : 		#4

Thanks Matt Darcy, that solved my question.