Comments on: Error When ugrading to Ubuntu version 7.10

By: kdormuth

kdormuth — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:40:43 +0000

Hi,
I’m having the same problem, but I’m a total newb so I’m not really sure how to implement the solution in response 2. (the website is no longer available.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks.

By: MikeT

MikeT — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:52:26 +0000

Admin - thanks for the excellent advice. It worked for me.

By: gamboy

gamboy — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:52:29 +0000

I had a similar error a long time ago, and it was due to a bad setting of my date/timezone etc…
Hope a ntpdate will help you ?
(I don’t think so it’s so easy, but…)

By: unicorn

unicorn — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:38:21 +0000

I have the similar problem.

Why the heck is source-o-matic closed?
Then, why the heck is there any alternative site for that?

I don’t want to edit my source.list manually, even though I could.

By: Elups

Elups — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:15:25 +0000

When I go to http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic/ it says:
Sorry, the page you requested could not be found.

By: blah

blah — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:23:01 +0000

You can try manual to uncompress the archive and see what is the error which is returned.
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
bzip2 -d Packages.bz2

If no error this means that the Packages.bz2 downloaded by apt is corrupted.

By: KenBW2

KenBW2 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:56:29 +0000

Erm, would it be too obvious to suggest a clean install?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:49:46 +0000

try this solution

1. Visit: http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic/ and generate a new source list.

2. Edit your source list

gksu gedit /etc/apt/source.list

3. Copy the generated source list from the website and paste it over the existing list

4. Save the source list

5. update source list

sudo apt-get update

6. Run the update manager

gksu “update-manager -c”

Hope this helps