Upgrading from Gloria to Helena via Command

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dannymichel

Upgrading from Gloria to Helena via Command

Post by dannymichel »

I'm trying to upgrade from Gloria to Helena using this method and am getting errors

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danny@danny-desktop ~ $ gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
danny@danny-desktop ~ $ apt update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Translation-en_US          
Get:2 http://archive.canonical.com karmic Release.gpg [189B]                   
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release.gpg [189B]                      
Ign http://archive.canonical.com karmic/partner Translation-en_US              
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Translation-en_US                    
Get:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com helena Release.gpg [198B]                  
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Translation-en_US    
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Translation-en_US      
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Translation-en_US    
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release [44.1kB]              
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Translation-en_US              
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Translation-en_US                
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Translation-en_US              
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release.gpg [189B]              
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Translation-en_US            
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Translation-en_US      
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Translation-en_US        
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US      
Get:7 http://archive.canonical.com karmic Release [9347B]                      
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com helena/main Translation-en_US                
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com helena/upstream Translation-en_US            
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com helena/import Translation-en_US              
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release [65.9kB]                        
Get:9 http://packages.linuxmint.com helena Release [7251B]                     
Get:10 http://archive.canonical.com karmic/partner Packages [3847B]            
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com helena/main Packages                         
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages [89.8kB]       
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release [44.1kB]               
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com helena/upstream Packages                     
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com helena/import Packages                       
Get:13 http://packages.linuxmint.com helena/main Packages [4682B]              
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages [1353kB]                 
Get:15 http://packages.linuxmint.com helena/upstream Packages [6732B]          
Get:16 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Packages [14B]    
Get:17 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Packages [50.0kB]   
Get:18 http://packages.linuxmint.com helena/import Packages [5939B]            
Get:19 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Packages [1519B]  
Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Packages [7969B]            
Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages [5108kB]             
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages [185kB]            
Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages [195kB]          
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Packages [14B]      
Get:25 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Packages [125kB]      
Get:26 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Packages [7259B]    
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic Release.gpg                           
  Could not connect to packages.medibuntu.org:80 (88.191.82.11), connection timed out
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/free Translation-en_US
  Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org http:
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/non-free Translation-en_US
  Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org http:
Fetched 7315kB in 2min 0s (60.9kB/s)                     
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/karmic/Release.gpg  Could not connect to packages.medibuntu.org:80 (88.191.82.11), connection timed out

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/karmic/free/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2  Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org http:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/karmic/non-free/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2  Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org http:

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
danny@danny-desktop ~ $ apt install mint-info-main
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mint-info-main
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1037 not upgraded.
Need to get 726kB of archives.
After this operation, 938kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  mint-info-main
Authentication warning overridden.
Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com helena/main mint-info-main 8.0.2 [726kB]
Fetched 726kB in 1s (446kB/s)          
Selecting previously deselected package mint-info-main.
(Reading database ... 107425 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mint-info-main (from .../mint-info-main_8.0.2_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-info-main_8.0.2_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/linuxmint/info', which is also in package mint-info-x64
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-info-main_8.0.2_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
danny@danny-desktop ~ $ apt install mint-meta-main
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package mint-meta-main
danny@danny-desktop ~ $ 
           
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Re: Upgrading from Gloria to Helena via Command

Post by remoulder »

Medibuntu repo appears to be down currently
[Edit] your original post and add [SOLVED] once your question is resolved.

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