Upgrade/update - connection issue

[kiddd_]

Hello ! I'm stuck on some problems I've been trying to solve these days and I cant' seem to get anywhere with them.First of all I must say that my problem isn't new - however - none of the solutions I've seen on other posts solved my problem/s - and I've read a lot !

I'll try my best in order to explain this the right way. I can't update / upgrade and mainly whatever I try to do ends up with an error which says that I must check my Internet connection.

i.e this is what i get when i try to sudo apt-get update:

root@kiddd-VGN-FW56M:/home/kiddd/Desktop# apt-get update
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/lkjoel/fix404/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/lkjoel/fix404/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/universe i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main i386 Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted i386 Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/multiverse i386 Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/universe i386 Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main i386 Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted i386 Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/multiverse i386 Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/universe i386 Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted i386 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/multiverse i386 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/universe i386 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/lkjoel/fix4...rce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/lkjoel/fix4...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.


I'm running ubuntu 10.10 and I've been trying to upgrade my verion to the last one 12.10. I've tried it with burned dvds ( 11.04 -> 11.10 -> 12.04 -> 12.10 ) and via internet also - no luck.

Please help me out as I am running out of ideas.

I could backup all the stuff and format/clean install but I really want to FIX this issue. Thank you all for your time !

[arpanaut]

Maverick has reached End of Life, Please see:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades

[kiddd_]

Hello and thank you for your reply !

Same issue strikes again :


The program 'aptitude' can be found in the following packages:
* aptitude
* aptitude-gtk
Try: apt-get install <selected package>
root@kiddd-VGN-FW56M:/etc/apt# apt-get install aptitude
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package aptitude is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate
root@kiddd-VGN-FW56M:/etc/apt#