Sorry, there are thousands of posts with apt-get problems due to old repos. But 14.04 LTS is supposed to be a long term support release.
When we try to install anything, or run "apt-get update" we just get a lot of 404s, e.g:
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.26 80]
We tried the following:
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*
apt-get update
But this did not help. Is there any solution? We cant upgrade them to a newer version of ubuntu as they are all heavily tested production servers.
Is there a way to manually download the unzip package, and install it locally?
I tried also:
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
both of these run, but give "0 upgraded, 0 newly installed" etc.
Interestingly, we have not had this problem on other identical servers. I have just compared a workign server and a non working server for "apt-get update".
Working 14.04 LTS server:
:
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/restricted amd64 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe amd64 Packages
Non working 14.04 LTS server:
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en
Err http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted amd64 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe amd64 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
good server:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
bad server:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
