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gmp4 package

Access is forbidden to download package

Asked by Belerophon

Hi,

I never faced this problem, nor do I know this community well enough to know the exact channel that I should use to post this question... so, sorry if I'm on the wrong place.

I'm currently trying to update my ubuntu server distribution from 11.04 to 11.1 (64 bits), using the do-release-upgrade command.
However, the update fails because of this package:
libgmp3c2

I'm in Portugal, and the link:
http://pt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gmp4/libgmp3c2_4.3.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

is "forbidden".

How can I solve this?

Thank you very much,
André Cardoso

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Best mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

Change your mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gmp4/libgmp3c2_4.3.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

works for me. (note the missing pt.)

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Chris (fabricator4) said : 		#2

It's "forbidden" I think because it doesn't exist. libgmp 4 was a transition package that was supposed to take you from 3.2 to 10:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653230

Looks like the wheels might have fallen off that somewhere. It should probably have been removed from your system before upgrade (sudo apt-get autoremove)

Chris

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Belerophon (thyandrecardoso) said : 		#3

I tried to remove the package. Unfortunately, gcc and a bunch of other packages seemed to depend on it....
Also, I don't have any "left-overs" to remove... at least autoremove did not do anything...

I thought of the moving changing my mirrors but I have a, probably stupid, doubt:
- there are no differences at all between the mirrors? As my whole system was built using the PT mirrors, trying to upgrade from different ones won't break anything? Locale settings.... or whatever?

... I reckon this is stupid, because I think the word "mirror" should be self-explanatory... but I might as well ask :)

Thank you,
André

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#4

No, the mirrors are exact copies of each - all locale data is stored in each package for every locale. The advantage of the mirrors is that you can connect to a server that is locally close to you, and thus obtain faster download speeds.

It seems something is wrong with your local mirror, so moving to another one should fix the problem. Aside from routing, the mirrors should have almost the same, or exactly the same content.

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Belerophon (thyandrecardoso) said : 		#5

Thanks mycae, that solved my question.