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Update is unable to find netbook remix lpia binaries

Asked by John

I am a relative newbie to Linux and Ubuntu, so please be gentle and don't assume that I know anything.

I recently installed the Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my Acer Aspire One netbook (it came with Windows XP Home). The automated apt update process always fails because it is getting HTTP 404 errors on a few LPIA binary package URLs, as such:

Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/multiverse/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/universe/binary-lpia/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

This leaves a flashing triangle icon in my system tray and tells me I haven't updated my package information since I installed Ubuntu. I'd like the update to work successfully and I assume I will need to do one of the following 2 things (or something else?):

1) Tell apt where it can find the LPIA binary packages

2) Tell apt that my netbook is an i386 architecture and not an LPIA architecture

I'm not really sure if I'm correct, or how I would go about doing either of these.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John

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John (s-launchpad-blakely-org) said : 		#1

I was able to find the LPIA binary package files at ports.ubuntu.com. I'm not sure if this is a good or a safe thing, but it did allow me to check for updates without any errors, and found 175 updates to apply.

I am hoping someone can comment on how safe and reasonable this is.

Here is the /etc/apt/sources.list file that seems to be working for me:

deb http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ hardy main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ hardy-updates main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ hardy-security main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-netbook-base main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-netbook-base main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-netbook-remix main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-netbook-remix main universe multiverse restricted

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John (s-launchpad-blakely-org) said : 		#2

Adding information in case this is helpful for someone with a similar problem. Using the ports.ubuntu.com restricted option left me without access to my wireless card and created multiple errors at startup (I wasn't able to read them because they went by too fast). I had to restore from a backup to get my network working and try other upgrade options.

After I removed the restricted option, only 152 of the 175 updates were available and the following message was displayed by the Update Manager application:

"Not all updates can be installed

Run partial upgrade to install as many updates as possible.

This can be caused by:
* A previous upgrade which did not complete
* Problems with some of the installed software
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
* Normal changes of a pre-release version of Ubuntu."

The partial upgrade did complete successfully and Ubuntu seems to working properly.

The updates which could not be applied are:

"Important security updates
* bind9-host
* dnsutils
* libbind9-30
* libdns35
* libisccc30
* libisccfg30
* linux-image-lpia
Recommended updates
* cheese
* evince"

I suppose I can live with this. Here is the /etc/apt/source.list file that I am using:

deb http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ hardy main universe multiverse
deb-src http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ hardy main universe multiverse

deb http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ hardy-updates main universe multiverse
deb-src http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ hardy-updates main universe multiverse

deb http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ hardy-security main universe multiverse
deb-src http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ hardy-security main universe multiverse

deb http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-netbook-base main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-netbook-base main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-netbook-remix main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy-netbook-remix main universe multiverse restricted

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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