Squid fails to install

[Van Staay]

Hi everyone,

I installed Ubuntu Server 8.10 on a VMware.
I configured 2 NIC's and they can ping with the internet.
When i wanted to install SQUID, i hit a brickwall.. even after looking on the web for answers..

1) Sudo apt-get update
I get a connection with http://be.archive.ubuntu.com, but after some time, it seems that there is a disconnection (failed to fetch). Very similar as this post : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1315142
2) apt-get update -o Acquire::http::No-Cache=True
This also fails. I can ping "us.archive.ubuntu.com".

3) sudo aptitude update gives also an error.
4) sudo apt-get install squid. The error is "E: couldn't find package squid.

5) I change/edit the "http's to ftp's in /etc/apt/source.list and try again " apt-get install update", or apt-get update or apt-get install squid...
Nothing works.


Any idea what can cause this issue ?
Greetings,
Carl

[dniMretsaM]

8.10 is no longer supported and it's repositories have been disabled. You'll need to install a new version. 10.04 is the current LTS, 11.10 is the latest.

[gmargo]

8.10 Intrepid is no longer supported or updated.

However, you can still install everything from that release. The repositories were only moved, not removed.

You will have to manually edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

Change all instances of:
"http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid"
to
"http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid".

Modify similarly for "intrepid-updates" or "intrepid-backports" entries.

The security entries are slightly different:
Change all instances of:
"http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-security"
to
"http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security".

Now a normal "apt-get update" etc should work.