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Cannot upgrade to Edgy

Asked by Rana

I am trying to upgrade from 6.06 to 6.10 (dapper to edgy).
So
I use this command
   >gksu "update-manager -c"
Subsequent to this when the GUI update program tries to update to 6.10 these error messages are seen in a window.
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Failed to fetch http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/dists/dapper/free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/dists/dapper/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/dists/dapper/free/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/dists/dapper/non-free/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
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This is not a firewall problem because I have taken that into account.

Please Help.

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Thomas Templin (coastgnu) said : 		#1

Hi Rana

The message you've seen (404 not Found) says that the site is unreachable.
But it might be that it will be reachable again after some time.
For the moment do the following:

Open a terminal and start
 sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then search for the lines which contain 'packages.freecontrib.org' and put an # in front of it.
Save the file and restart the update-manager
 gksu "update-manager -c

By adding an # in front of a line this line will be seen as a comment and update-manager, apt-get, synaptics and other package managers don't interpret it anymore. You may enable it later on but you should first try to open http://packages.freecontrib.org/ in a browser.
In the moment it shows that there is no directory named plf. I would say that this site doesn't offer packages anymore.

I hope that this will help you solving your problem.

regards,
thomas

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#2

In addition the packages that you installed from that site are now obtainable from the "medibuntu" repository. So follow the instructions coastgnu provided then add medibuntu repository (for edgy) and try to do the upgrade again. This should mean the extra stuff you added from the plf repository (likely to be media playing applications / libraries) *should* be upgraded too.

http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/

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