Package installation and updates fail in Ubuntu 11.04

[ScottSanbar]

I can no longer use apt-get or the Gui Package Manager in Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop to install packages or updates. Here is some output from some failed apt-get attempts. Please help!


scott@scotts2ub:~/Downloads$ ls
irssi paultag randconverse_1.0-0~5~natty1_i386.deb typescript
scott@scotts2ub:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install *.deb
[sudo] password for scott:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package randconverse_1.0-0~5~natty1_i386.deb
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'randconverse_1.0-0~5~natty1_i386.deb'
scott@scotts2ub:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get update
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty InRelease
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/main TranslationIndex
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/restricted TranslationIndex
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/main Translation-en
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com natty InRelease
Ign http://archive.canonical.com natty InRelease
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security InRelease
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty InRelease
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates InRelease
Hit http://archive.canonical.com natty Release.gpg
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com natty Release.gpg
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security Release.gpg
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.canonical.com natty Release
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com natty Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.canonical.com natty/partner i386 Packages
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com natty/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty Release
Ign http://archive.canonical.com natty/partner TranslationIndex
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com natty/main i386 Packages
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com natty/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty InRelease
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty InRelease
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates Release
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty Release.gpg
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/multiverse i386 Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/multiverse TranslationIndex
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/restricted TranslationIndex
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/universe TranslationIndex
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/main i386 Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty Release.gpg
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/multiverse i386 Packages
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/multiverse TranslationIndex
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/restricted TranslationIndex
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/universe TranslationIndex
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/multiverse i386 Packages
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [198 B]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/multiverse TranslationIndex
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/restricted TranslationIndex
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/universe TranslationIndex
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty Release
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty Release
Get:2 http://dl.google.com stable Release [1,347 B]
Ign http://archive.canonical.com natty/partner Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com natty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.canonical.com natty/partner Translation-en
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com natty/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/multiverse Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/universe Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/main Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/multiverse Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/restricted Translation-en
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Get:3 http://dl.google.com stable/main i386 Packages [1,190 B]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty/universe Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/multiverse Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/universe Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main Translation-en
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en
Fetched 2,735 B in 13s (195 B/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer-dev/ppa/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer-dev/ppa/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbzr-dev/ppa/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbzr-dev/ppa/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
scott@scotts2ub:~/Downloads$

[ApOgEEs]

try

$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
instead

[ScottSanbar]

Yes - you are correct, of course.

However, I still have the problem "sudo apt-get update" giving me errors.

Thanks ... Scott

[ApOgEEs]

Yes - you are correct, of course.

However, I still have the problem "sudo apt-get update" giving me errors.

Thanks ... Scott


actually, that was because there is no natty release for that specific ppa. You may disable those ppa and you won't see that error again.

check it here:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer-dev/ppa/ubuntu/dists/
http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbzr-dev/ppa/ubuntu/dists/

You may also ask the maintainer of that ppa repositories if they are will update their repo.

[sonucool]

absolutely correct buddy!http://goo.gl/0pzLP

[ScottSanbar]

Thanks, ApOgEEs! However, there is some more info I got from tumbleweed on irc.freenode.net channel #ubuntu-packaging. To sum up all the fixes for this issue:

1. As shown by ApOgEEs above, to install my package from a .deb file, I was improperly using:


sudo apt-get install filename.debinstead of:


sudo dpkg -i filename.deb2. As discussed by ApOgEEs above, I had entries for PPAs that were not maintained for Natty in the following files:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list (multiple .list files in the sources.list.d subdirectory

3. I could just comment out those lines, or rename or delete the files that contained those repositories, However, these entries were a result of adding packages not meant for natty following this tutorial:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Development/Devbeginnings#Installing_Development_Tools

Which directs you to this page to do the install:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/bazaar-explorer-advanced-version-control-made-simple.html

I somehow managed (probably through my own twisted logic) to get the two packages (bzr-explorer and qbzr) to install using the following .list files I added to the above directory:

bzr-explorer-dev-ppa-natty.list - contents:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer-dev/ppa/ubuntu natty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer-dev/ppa/ubuntu natty main

and:

qbzr-dev-ppa-natty.list - contents:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbzr-dev/ppa/ubuntu natty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbzr-dev/ppa/ubuntu natty main

4. Finally, from tumbleweed, I learned the proper way to fix all this stuff that I should never have installed on Natty in the first place:


sudo apt-get-install ppa-purge

ppa-purge bzr-explorer
ppa-purge qbzrhowever, this did not work because I had pointers to natty versions of these two binary and source packages which installed somehow but would not uninstall because those repositories were not found, so what I did was first use dpkg to uninstall each package:


sudo dpkg -r bzr-explorer
sudo dpkg -r qbzrThen, I just deleted the two offending .list files above completely, and this seems to have solved my problem. I hope this took care of it completely, and it seems to have:


sudo apt-get updateNow is clean. I am now going to write a bug on the above mentioned tutorial to add a warning to users of the tutorial that if they have natty (or newer) they should not install bzr-explorer and qbzr.

[ApOgEEs]

good to hear it is solved.

Nice detailed explanation ScottSanbar! :)

[ScottSanbar]

New details on this post:

After I had deleted the bzr-explorer and qbzr packages and had gotten rid of the offending ppa references as described above, I tried to do the following:


bzr help commandsIt erred out complaining that bzr-explorer needed qbzr to work correctly. I tried the following:


sudo apt-get purge bzrThen reinstalled bzr, but it still seemed to indicate I had bzr-explorer installed even though I did not. So, I installed using regular sudo apt-get install bzr, qbzr and bzr-exlorer in that order. Then everything worked.

I think the following Wiki needs to be updated to indicate that you can now, apparently, install qbzr and bzr-explorer using just apt-get without needing to mess with ppas for Natty:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Development/Devbeginnings#Minimal_Shortcut:_Verify_Bazaar_.28b zr.29_is_installed