| RedPandaNL | Hey folks. Would anyone be willing te help me out with a problem I'm experiencing running Ubuntu Mate on a Raspberry Pi 2? | 04:58 |
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| RedPandaNL | I shelved my Raspberry for a year or so, and now I wanted to start using it again. Internet is working fine, but 'sudo apt-get update' results in 404 not found errors. Lots of em. | 05:00 |
| m4t | which ver ubuntu? | 05:00 |
| m4t | it's possible the mirror disappeared | 05:00 |
| RedPandaNL | Linux M-PI 4.1.13-v7+ #826 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 13 20:19:03 GMT 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux | 05:00 |
| m4t | RedPandaNL: can you pastebin the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list? | 05:01 |
| RedPandaNL | damn, I'm so rusty.. i forgot how to select and copy something from the file in vim :P | 05:08 |
| RedPandaNL | I'm gonna go against my own rule and do it in the desktop environment | 05:08 |
| RedPandaNL | https://pastebin.com/ehfrW3X5 | 05:11 |
| RedPandaNL | btw I also tried some stuff from a Google search. for example I tried 'sudo mv /var/lib/apt/lists ~/Documents' and then run update again, without any luck | 05:22 |
| alkisg | RedPandaNL: I just came,what is the problem? | 05:23 |
| alkisg | apt doesn't work? | 05:23 |
| RedPandaNL | nope, none of the commands like 'update; install -f; upgrade; dist-upgrade; purge; autoremove', etc. don't work | 05:25 |
| RedPandaNL | update results in 404's and the others tell me there is nothing to update,remove, etc | 05:26 |
| RedPandaNL | internet is fine, btw. And I'm pretty sure there is no proxy in my setup. | 05:27 |
| RedPandaNL | I just grabbed this Raspberry PI 2 after having it shelved for well over a year | 05:29 |
| RedPandaNL | https://pastebin.com/ehfrW3X5 <- here's my /etc/apt/sources.list | 05:29 |
| m4t | uhm you can do this RedPandaNL | 05:31 |
| m4t | replace all occurrences of http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ with http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ | 05:31 |
| m4t | its removed from the main archives | 05:31 |
| alkisg | Yeah wily isn't officially supported anymore, do point to the old-releases | 05:31 |
| alkisg | And better yet, reinstall with some supported version | 05:32 |
| m4t | i dunno about the ports.ubuntu.com urls | 05:32 |
| m4t | RedPandaNL: unless you're particularly attached to the configuration/contents of the sd card, it'd be a lot faster to just reimage the sd card with a newer ver of ubuntu | 05:33 |
| RedPandaNL | yeah I kinda was afraid of that :) However, after replacing us.archives with old-releases, I am getting some Get's now finally though. But misses on the ports.* url again indeed. | 05:36 |
| alkisg | There's no ports url for wily anymore, you need to remove all those | 05:37 |
| alkisg | http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/ | 05:37 |
| alkisg | Only precise, trusty, xenial, artful, bionic, cosmic there | 05:38 |
| RedPandaNL | thank you alkisg! | 05:53 |
| RedPandaNL | I tried cleaning up the sources.list a little bit more but in the end I couldn't update or install anything. | 05:55 |
| alkisg | RedPandaNL: for the next time, use lts releases,they last a lot longer (5 years) | 05:56 |
| alkisg | E.g. 16.04 or 18.04 | 05:56 |
| RedPandaNL | I'll backup my scripts and stuff and then start anew :) I guess that would be good for me to freshen up on my linux knowledge | 05:57 |
| RedPandaNL | good tip | 05:57 |
| RedPandaNL | I wanted to dive in like a pro, when I installed this over 2 years ago. But I guess I'm the kind of user that needs LTS to hold my hand :P | 05:58 |
| alkisg | It's not just that. Developers don't care much about non-lts releases, after the next release comes out | 05:58 |
| alkisg | So they don't get as much support, so pro or not, they're a bit troublesome | 05:58 |
| RedPandaNL | Nor should they I suppose. And I'm just not experienced enough to work around all that stuff :) | 05:59 |
| RedPandaNL | Thanks again Alkisg! | 05:59 |
| Talikka | Are there people here who can speak Somali, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian or Russian? | 20:36 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Use respective ubuntu channels for that | 20:39 |
| Talikka | Aha are there for MATE also? But yes indeed, thanks for the tip. I seem not to get the obvious. :) | 20:40 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Not as far as I am aware. If the system/question is Ubuntu, flavour should be irrelevant for a lot of questions. | 20:42 |
| Talikka | I am interested in specially MATE users and localization. I am trying to get funding for projects that decrease digital marginalization by refurbishing old computers with Ubuntu MATE. I have succeeded a little and now something bigger might be forming. Here's a short description of the workshops and Ubuntu (MATE) in general in a few languages. | 20:45 |
| Talikka | http://akutalikka.vapaavuoro.uusisuomi.fi/kulttuuri/254623-ubuntu-tyopaja-easy-computer-using-and-recycling-workshop-in-hameenlinna | 20:45 |
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