[04:58] <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?
[05:00] <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
[05:01] <m4t> RedPandaNL: can you pastebin the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list?
[05:08] <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
[05:11] <RedPandaNL> https://pastebin.com/ehfrW3X5
[05:22] <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
[05:23] <alkisg> RedPandaNL: I just came,what is the problem?
[05:23] <alkisg> apt doesn't work?
[05:25] <RedPandaNL> nope, none of the commands like 'update; install -f; upgrade; dist-upgrade; purge; autoremove', etc. don't work
[05:26] <RedPandaNL> update results in 404's and the others tell me there is nothing to update,remove, etc
[05:27] <RedPandaNL> internet is fine, btw. And I'm pretty sure there is no proxy in my setup.
[05:29] <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
[05:31] <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
[05:32] <alkisg> And better yet, reinstall with some supported version
[05:32] <m4t> i dunno about the ports.ubuntu.com urls
[05:33] <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
[05:36] <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.
[05:37] <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/
[05:38] <alkisg> Only precise, trusty, xenial, artful, bionic, cosmic there
[05:53] <RedPandaNL> thank you alkisg!
[05:55] <RedPandaNL> I tried cleaning up the sources.list a little bit more but in the end I couldn't update or install anything.
[05:56] <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
[05:57] <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
[05:58] <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
[05:59] <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!
[20:36] <Talikka> Are there people here who can speak Somali, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian or Russian?
[20:39] <sixwheeledbeast> Use respective ubuntu channels for that
[20:40] <Talikka> Aha are there for MATE also? But yes indeed, thanks for the tip. I seem not to get the obvious. :)
[20:42] <sixwheeledbeast> Not as far as I am aware. If the system/question is Ubuntu, flavour should be irrelevant for a lot of questions.
[20:45] <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