apt-get woes

[jeisma]

hello!

after my first (painful) install of ubuntu 5.10, and found the need to install tbird, found myself stumped with apt-get not being able to update.

i am on lan and connects to the internet via proxy (squid). already made changes to the bashrc file for http proxy connection.

running sudo apt-get update i get this:
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Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release.gpg
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates Release
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Packages
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Sources
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Sources
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/main Packages
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/restricted Packages
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/main Sources
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/restricted Sources
Err http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
403 Forbidden
Err http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Packages
403 Forbidden
Err http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Sources
403 Forbidden
Err http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Sources
403 Forbidden
Err http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/main Packages
403 Forbidden
Err http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/restricted Packages
403 Forbidden
Err http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/main Sources
403 Forbidden
Err http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/restricted Sources
403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...86/Packages.gz 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...86/Packages.gz 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...rce/Sources.gz 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...rce/Sources.gz 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...86/Packages.gz 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...86/Packages.gz 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...rce/Sources.gz 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...rce/Sources.gz 403 Forbidden
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ph.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_main_bin ary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ph.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_restrict ed_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ph.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ph.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy-updates_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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somehow, i believe, apt-get is able to connect to the internet (thru a proxy) but is being blocked by firewall or something.

what would i ask the admin so that i can succesfully update?

also, with the above errors, via firefox, i tried to download http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...86/Packages.gz, which went fine.

i tried wget -vc http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...86/Packages.gz, i get "ERROR 403: Forbidden."

enlighten me pls?

thank you!

[praka123]

first of all do a

dpkg-reconfigure apt

i also have got those errors ended up in a custom sources.list.here's mine hope if u want to have.

deb file:/var/cache/apt-build/repository apt-build main
deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.


#Security Updates
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted  

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe multiverse

#Breezy updates
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
#Backports
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

#Main Repos
deb ftp://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy main restricted universe multiverse 
#deb-src ftp://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy main restricted

Another cool tip i used in ubuntu and debian is to add these lines to activate programmable bash completion.

# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profiles
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . /etc/bash_completion
fi

double click tab for completion.i hope it will come handy

[jeisma]

hello!

thank you for the reply.

i tried all your suggestion, i still get this bunch of "forbidden, failed, and couldn't stat source package".

what's could be missing?


thank you!

[justin whitaker]

Have you tried manually changing repositories?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto

My thoughts are:

Given that the system is connected to the web, and all packages are coming from the same location, maybe the issue is server side.