Failed to fetch... http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya

[Schrödinger's Cat]

I've been having troubles updating for the past week or so. Some of the updates go fine, but a lot of the downloads fail. Now it looks like there are two repositories causing problems...

I'm running Linux Mint 13 with Cinnamon 64-bit.

Here's the error message I get:

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GPG error: ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org squeeze Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/Release.gpg  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/main/binary-amd64/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/upstream/binary-amd64/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/import/binary-amd64/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/main/binary-i386/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/upstream/binary-i386/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/import/binary-i386/Packages  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/import/i18n/Translation-en_CA  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/import/i18n/Translation-en  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/main/i18n/Translation-en_CA  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/main/i18n/Translation-en  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/upstream/i18n/Translation-en_CA  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/upstream/i18n/Translation-en  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[zerozero]

can you please open a terminal and give us the output of

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inxi -Sr

[Schrödinger's Cat]

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System:    Host: turnip Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ maya main upstream import
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise partner
           deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ precise free non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-talkplugin.list
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main


p.s. I edited my first post when I realized that Maya IS Precise Pangolin. newb moment

[zerozero]

yeahh anyway

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ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org squeeze

shouldn't be in your sources.list unless you are waiting for a breakage that is a debian repo and shouldn't be used with ubuntu-based systems.

regarding packages.linuxmint i can't reach it tonight either.

[squeezy]

regarding packages.linuxmint i can't reach it tonight either.

I've started using a mirror for the packages.linuxmint.com repos. Find one near you here, http://www.linuxmint.com/mirrors.php. Look in the Mirrored Repositories section of this page.

Also, don't forget to update your preferences file, in particular this line:

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Package: *
Pin: origin packages.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 700

Change the packages.linuxmint.com entry to match the name of the mirror you're using.

[Schrödinger's Cat]

So if I wanted to use the one from Waterloo (Canada), I click on the link and get http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint/

How do I turn that into a repository entry? Just replace packages.linuxmint.com with mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint ?

[zerozero]

you can do that within synaptic


edit: this way you're not *updating* the /etc/apt/preferences file to match the new repo, so you have to manually change the rule as squeezy shows you bellow

[squeezy]

No, you want to use the one listed on that mirrors page,

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http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint-packages/

If you're editing your sources.list file directly, replace packages.linuxmint. com with the string above.

Your new entry would look like this:

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deb http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint-packages/ maya main upstream import

Then update your preferences file to so the packages.linuxmint.com entry looks like this:

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Package: *
Pin: origin mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Pin-Priority: 700

EDIT: zerozero shows the easy way That method does not update the preferences file so you still need to do that.

[anjanaya]

I had the same Problem and was solved by using this, Cheers!!!
Really appreciate the help.

[Schrödinger's Cat]

One thing I'll mention, is that not all the same updates were available on the mirror as the ones in the original packages.linuxmint.com ... But I'm sure that it's just a one or two day delay, and I don't think that will make a huge difference in my life.

[zerozero]

packages.linuxmint is up again