Repositories Not Authenticated?

[LeeU]

In the past few weeks, I have been getting a "Repositories Not Authenticated" error message when I tried to installed different software (e.g., Epiphany browser). When I reloaded the repositories, I get the following errors:

http://apt.wxwidgets.org/dists/gutsy-wx/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2: Hash Sum mismatch
http://apt.wxwidgets.org/dists/gutsy-wx/main/source/Sources.bz2: Hash Sum mismatch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/universe/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/multiverse/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-security/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-security/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-security/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-security/main/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-security/restricted/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-security/universe/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-security/multiverse/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-updates/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-updates/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-updates/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-updates/restricted/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-updates/main/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-updates/multiverse/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-updates/universe/source/Sources.gz: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]

I am using Gutsy 7.10. Anybody have any ideas what is wrong?

[yaroto98]

I'm not sure Gutsy is still supported. Hardy is the stable version that'll be supported for a while, and the current version Jaunty. Other than those, and I wouldn't be surprised if the repos give funky errors. I'd suggest upgrading to at least Hardy.

[TheNosh]

gutsy is not supported anymore, so the repositories are no longer being hosted where they were. i think theres someplace that they've been moved to, but i would suggest upgrading to jaunty 9.04 or at least the latest LTS, hardy 8.04

[taurus]

Gutsy has been moved to here, http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/. Therefore, you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and replace the http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ with http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ for all the repos.

Then save it and run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[LeeU]

Thanks, taurus! I'll check it out.

Okay, I don't have that exact line. What I have is this:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe multiverse

## 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.
# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy universe
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy universe

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates restricted main multiverse universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates restricted main multiverse universe
## deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted
deb http://hydr0g3n.free.fr/qbittorrent/gutsy/ ./
deb-src http://hydr0g3n.free.fr/qbittorrent/gutsy/ ./

# wxWidgets/wxPython repository at apt.wxwidgets.org
deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ gutsy-wx main
deb-src http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ gutsy-wx main

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tasque-packagers/ubuntu gutsy main

Which one do I need to change?

[taurus]

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

[LeeU]

Yeah, that's the one I want to use. I just need to back up 50 GB first.

BTW, see edited comment above ...

[taurus]

#deb http://hydr0g3n.free.fr/qbittorrent/gutsy/ ./
#deb-src http://hydr0g3n.free.fr/qbittorrent/gutsy/ ./

# wxWidgets/wxPython repository at apt.wxwidgets.org
#deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ gutsy-wx main
#deb-src http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ gutsy-wx main

#deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tasque-packagers/ubuntu gutsy main

Put a # in front of those repos at the end to comment them out. They are 3rd party repos and you don't need them anymore.

Then replace everything else from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ to http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ so it would look something like this.

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/gutsy main restricted universe multiverse

[LeeU]

That worked great! Thanks!

Just curious, why gksudo instead of just sudo?

[Shrekster]

gksudo or gksu is used for graphical apps.
Though, one should not use the `terminal` sudo for such apps as it might cause problems with the expansion of the root $HOME or "~" in their code, it works most of the time where applications do not make extensive use of the enviornment variables. For example, sudo uses the current user's home dir (for eg, /home/currentuserhome) while gksu/gksudo sets the environment variable to /home/root. Now, this might not follow under some circumstances, there are still lot many reasons to not use the improper way of running a graphical app from terminal.