¨Could not download the upgrades.¨

[captain_conrad]

I cannot get my system do upgrade!](*,):x
It just spits out this message to me.

¨Could not download the upgrades

The upgrade is now aborted. Please check your Internet connection or installation media and try again. All files downloaded so far are kept.

Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-emailmerge_3.0.1-9ubuntu3_all.deb 302 Redirect [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]¨



this oppenoffice.org thing has forever given me hassles every time I do an upgrade, the emailmerge thing.

here´s what it says:


¨W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-emailmerge_3.1.0-1ubuntu1~intrepid1_all.deb
302 Redirect¨



please help, what on earth do I have to do to just get the newest ubuntu???????????????????????????????????????????

[taurus]

Why don't you edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and place a # in front of the repo from ppa.launchpad.net to comment it out? Then, you don't have to worry about it anymore.

[captain_conrad]

ok kewl.

question is, how on earth do I do that?

[_Purple_]

Can you post the contents of

gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

[captain_conrad]

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ intrepid free non-free #Medibuntu
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ubuntu intrepid main #Terminator
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt intrepid main #Wine
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free #Google
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu intrepid main #Compiz Fusion
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu intrepid main #Firefox
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian stable non-free #Skype
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main #OpenOffice.org
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free

[Therion]

Happened to me this morning. Running
sudo apt-get dist-update and
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade a time or two got everything sorted out.

[captain_conrad]

hey

well i tried running that and it ran for almost an hour, but eventually spat out this message:






Fetched 161MB in 1h9min39s (38.6kB/s)
Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-emailmerge_3.1.0-5ubuntu1~intrepid1_all.deb 302 Redirect
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
conrad@Conrad:~$ apt-get update
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
conrad@Conrad:~$





did it update anything at all????
am i doing it right / wrong????
confused.

[captain_conrad]

update:

I just left it, and I think with time it just sorted itself out... ? Still no idea what was wrong.

Its now a year later, and managed to update 9.04 to 9.10 to 10.04 just fine. (just had to free about 1GB of disk space to meet the requirements).

So i guess this thread is now obsolete, so I am marking it as solved.