Hello,
I have a strange error with the update manager and the package manager these days. Whenever I update my package list with synaptic I get the following error message:
Impossible de récupérer http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/ ... 6/Packages 404 Not Found
Impossible de récupérer http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/ ... 6/Packages 404 Not Found
Le téléchargement de quelques fichiers d'index a échoué, ils ont été ignorés, ou les anciens ont été utilisés à la place.
(basically a 404 error meaning the program could not reach the cited urls).
Not surprisingly, other errors come along:
- I get an error saying I should repair broken packages before I update any apt related package.
- Many packages (if not all) can no longer be authenticated, so I refrain from updating them either.
For the background, I run LMDE, and my sources.list reads:
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
I usually prefer to use Synaptic to manage my packages.
I browsed through the forum and asked my friend Google but could not find documentation on this issue. Does someone know how I could repair that ? I considered checking if my sources.list is identical to the one from a newly installed distribution, but I could not find that on the LMDE website, and besides it does not seem very wise to "just replace the sources.list" as I would fear version inconsistencies.
Thank you very much for your help !
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Re: 404 error when updating packages
As they explain on their website, the domain name debian-multimedia.org has been replaced by deb-multimedia.org (see news from 10/05/2012 here http://www.deb-multimedia.org/). You should update your sources.list to reflect that. The new domain name is not an alias; the domain names host different files. The repositories you want (testing) are only found on the new one. Hope that helps.
Re: 404 error when updating packages
hi Rasp,
those sources.list are not correct (not only because of what Vincent said above but also)
that install is either fairly old (about an year) or made from an old iso. those sources.list are pre-UP3 and this http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1836 is relevant here.
basically (in short) from UP3 onwards security and multimedia are mirrored by debian.linuxmint (not in your sources.list) to prevent lib mismatches between the main debian repo (mirrored and only updated through UP) and the other 2 (multimedia specially but also security that are freely updated in your situation)
right now you should have already a few issues (i would dare to assume) if you are updating regularly (specially in the multimedia&sound stack)
if that is so i think that right now the only way to level the issue is change the repos directly to testing (in your situation you just have to change the 2nd line
if you didn't update in some time and feel that have no alarming errors and lib mismatches flying around follow the instructions in the above linked blog post.
those sources.list are not correct (not only because of what Vincent said above but also)
that install is either fairly old (about an year) or made from an old iso. those sources.list are pre-UP3 and this http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1836 is relevant here.
basically (in short) from UP3 onwards security and multimedia are mirrored by debian.linuxmint (not in your sources.list) to prevent lib mismatches between the main debian repo (mirrored and only updated through UP) and the other 2 (multimedia specially but also security that are freely updated in your situation)
right now you should have already a few issues (i would dare to assume) if you are updating regularly (specially in the multimedia&sound stack)
if that is so i think that right now the only way to level the issue is change the repos directly to testing (in your situation you just have to change the 2nd line
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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport romeo
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main non-free
Re: 404 error when updating packages
Hello Vincent, hello Zerozero,
Thank you very much for your help ! I did the upgrade suggested by Zerozero and it seems to work smoothly now.
The only surprise is that my installation is less than six months old, and I thought I had done it through the official, up to date iso. Furthermore I had no trouble until very recently (a week ago or so), so I am puzzled by the cause of these troubles. It's pure curiosity now, and unfortunately I don't have time to investigate it.
In any case, thank you again !
Thank you very much for your help ! I did the upgrade suggested by Zerozero and it seems to work smoothly now.
The only surprise is that my installation is less than six months old, and I thought I had done it through the official, up to date iso. Furthermore I had no trouble until very recently (a week ago or so), so I am puzzled by the cause of these troubles. It's pure curiosity now, and unfortunately I don't have time to investigate it.
In any case, thank you again !