[Novalug] ubuntu problem with repositories

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Mon Feb 20 18:35:28 EST 2012


On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, jerry w wrote:

> seems like your sources.lst
> file has some bad entries in it,
> maybe you have a backup of it
> sources.lst~
> or can find a vanilla one on the net...
>

the weird thing is that i have looked at sources.lst and not found the 
listing for the error lines. It is almost as if the system is looking 
somewhere else for the repository sources. This is one of the reasons I 
posted for help. Will check my backups folders for a sources.lst



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>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:
>>
>> around a week ago I attempted to install a video editing program handbrake
>> that is not standard in the ubuntu repositories and followed some
>> instructions to add its repository.
>>
>> somewhere along the line i must have mistyped something and as a result I
>> cannot refresh my repository list either with synaptic, or the Ubuntu
>> software center or even with command line apt-get update.
>>
>> This is the sort of error I get from sudo apt-get update
>>
>> Err http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
>>   404  Not Found
>> Err http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
>>   404  Not Found
>> W: Failed to fetch
>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/user/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz
>> 404  Not Found
>>
>> W: Failed to fetch
>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/user/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
>> 404  Not Found
>>
>> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
>> ones used instead.
>>
>> I removed handbrake but this has not cured the problem
>>
>> before I mess anything else up I thought I would query the list for
>> ideas and help.
>>
>>
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                        Bonnie Dalzell, MA
mail:PO box 9767 Baldwin, MD, USA 21013  |  EMAIL:bdalzell@qis.net
shipping adddress:5100 Hydes Rd 21082 (Hydes Post Office closed Jan 2012)
Freelance anatomist, vertebrate paleontologist, writer, illustrator, dog
breeder, computer nerd & iconoclast... Borzoi info at www.borzois.com.
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