Re: Repository Problem
On Fri, 15 Apr 2016, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I just had a catastrophic crash which necessitated reinstalling
> Debian. I had been running v-7.2,but decided to upgrade to v-7.10
> with a complete install.
>
> Now when I update the repositories, regardless of the tool, Synaptic
> or Aptitude, I get the following errors:
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/main/source/Sources:
> 404 Not Found [IP: 2610:148:1f10:3::89 80]
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/contrib/source/Sources:
> 404 Not Found [IP: 2610:148:1f10:3::89 80]
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/non-free/source/Sources:
> 404 Not Found [IP: 2610:148:1f10:3::89 80]
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or
> old ones used instead.
> E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
>
> I do not get these errors if I comment out the deb-src lines in the
> sources.list.
>
> Now, I know that it has to be a problem with the new install as I
> have installed v-7.10 in a VMware Workstation 12 Player on my laptop
> as a test bed and do not get any errors.
>
> I would greatly appreciate help resolving this issue,.
>
> Thanks in advance.
In /etc/apt/sources.list, substiute ftp.us.debian.org for all
occurences of http.us.debian.org That's the way the installer
set it up on my Wheezy 7.10.
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