“sudo apt-get update” packages 404ing in nadia cinnamon

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“sudo apt-get update” packages 404ing in nadia cinnamon

Post by rblakemesser »

In Linux Mint Nadia (Cinnamon), when I run

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sudo apt-get update
I got the following set of error: I removed http://'s:

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Fetched 173 kB in 13s (12.5 kB/s) W: Failed to fetch archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/partner/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.150 80]

W: Failed to fetch archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/partner/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.150 80]

W: Failed to fetch archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/partner/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.150 80]

W: Failed to fetch dl.google.com/linux/deb/dists/stable/Release Unable to find expected entry 'non-free/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

W: Failed to fetch linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 199.47.217.170 80]

W: Failed to fetch linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 199.47.217.170 80]

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
The same errors also appear in the Update Manager. Switching download servers to a mirror in the "Software Sources" menu didn't work. and

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 sudo rm -fv /var/lib/apt/lists/* && sudo apt-get update 
didnt work either.
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Re: “sudo apt-get update” packages 404ing in nadia cinnamon

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Hi, your repositories are configured incorrectly. They have the release name "nadia", which is only for Linux Mint repositories. The repositories on which you get errors are Ubuntu repositories, so in fact the release name should be "quantal" for those. If you don't know how to fix that, please share the output of the following command (and don't remove any http from the output :)):

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inxi -r
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Re: “sudo apt-get update” packages 404ing in nadia cinnamon

Post by rblakemesser »

Hi Vincent. Thanks for your response/help. Here is the output:

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$ inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ nadia main import upstream
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ quantal partner
           deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ quantal free non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list
           deb http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu nadia main
           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.list
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/partner.list
           deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu nadia partner
           deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu nadia partner
Based on this: I fixed a few of them by switching nadia to quantal in the respective files. I narrowed it down to the below repositories. I'm now googling for solutions to those : )

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Fetched 175 kB in 14s (11.8 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 199.47.217.170 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 199.47.217.170 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/dists/stable/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'non-free/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Also found this: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.p ... 11635.html which didn't help.
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Re: “sudo apt-get update” packages 404ing in nadia cinnamon

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You can also view repositories in your web browser. For Dropbox, it seems the most recent Ubuntu repository is precise (click the link and see the available repositories): http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/dists/. So I'd try replacing quantal with precise for these two entries perhaps?

I'm not sure what the problem is with the Google repo...
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Re: “sudo apt-get update” packages 404ing in nadia cinnamon

Post by SomeguyRDR »

Hello- I am running Linux Mint 14 with the mate desktop.

I am having an issue something like that and being a noob to linux I am not sure how to fix the issue.
below is the error code
W: Failed to fetch http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/nadia/contrib/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not found

W: Failed to fetch http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/nadia/contrib/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.



here is the inxi -r output
~ $ inxi -r
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirror.umd.edu/linuxmint/packages/ nadia main upstream import
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ quantal partner
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ quantal free non-free
deb http://archive.removed/ubuntu quantal-removed apps
deb http://archive.removed/ubuntu quantal-removed games
deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu quantal main
deb-src http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu quantal main
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian nadia contrib


Any guidance would be awesome!
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Re: “sudo apt-get update” packages 404ing in nadia cinnamon

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SomeguyRDR wrote: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian nadia contrib
There is no debian nadia
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/

Open a terminal and copy and paste this into it:

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gksu gedit  /etc/apt/sources.list
then Replace that lin deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian nadia contrib with this one in sources list:

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deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian quantal contrib
save the file, then in the terminal copy and paste this:

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 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
that should fix your problem.
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Re: “sudo apt-get update” packages 404ing in nadia cinnamon

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Thank you for the response. I did as you said and when I ran sudo apt-get update I got this message at the end.

W: GPG error: http://download.virtualbox.org quantal Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 54422A4B98AB5139
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Re: “sudo apt-get update” packages 404ing in nadia cinnamon

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http://en.kioskea.net/faq/809-debian-apt-get-no-pubkey-gpg-error
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