Re: Error on install: Repository "couldn't be accessed"
On 2017-05-17, RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 05/17/2017 12:20 PM, Robert Hardy (r.hardy) wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I received this message when installing from the Debian 8.8 netinstall
>> ISO (debian-8.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso)
>>
>> Initial error was for ftp.uk.debian.org <ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org>. I
>> tried several others (including ftp.fr.debian.org
>> <ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org> and mirror.bytemark.co.uk) with similar errors.
>>
>> Continued with the install, which appeared to go OK otherwise. Found
>> that two lines were commented out in sources.list, post install:
>>
>> # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
>>
>> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
>>
>> #deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main
>>
>> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
>>
>> #deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main
>>
>> Uncommented these, and received the following errors on running apt-get
>> update:
>>
>> Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en
>>
>> Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en
>>
>> Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en
>>
>> Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en
>>
>> 404 Not Found [IP: 78.129.164.123 80]
>>
>> Fetched 168 kB in 6min 3s (463 B/s)
>>
>> W: Failed to fetch
>> http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/i18n/Translation-en
>> 404 Not Found [IP: 78.129.164.123 80]
>>
>> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
>> ones used instead.
>>
>> * Is this a known issue?
>> * Should I have any concerns about stability / missing files follow this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob
>
> I had that happened. I then changed all the http://ftp.* to
> http://httpredir.debian.org. I learned of this here:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Example_sources.list
>
> Then I apt-get update and it worked fine from there.
Just a FYI: the recommended redirector is now http://deb.debian.org/.
--
Liam
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