Anybody know apt-get ?

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <20101107140353.00005ef0 at unknown>, you wrote:

>On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 08:52:00 -0500
>Chris Brennan <xaero at xaerolimit.net> wrote:
>
>> I am going to take a stab in the dark here and suggest that some sort
>> of db needs to be built for apt ... clues in the part /var/db......
>> (man apt-get?)
>
>"apt-get update"

Well, um,  not having anything really to lose, I su'd to root and
tried the above command.

The resulting output does not look encouraging:

% apt-get update
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg [198B]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release [39.8kB]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Packages
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Packages
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/contrib Packages
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/non-free Packages
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Sources [1036kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Sources [4217B]         
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/contrib Sources                      
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/non-free Sources                     
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Fetched 1080kB in 7s (151kB/s)                                                 
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-freebsd-i386/Packages.gz  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/restricted/binary-freebsd-i386/Packages.gz  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/contrib/binary-freebsd-i386/Packages.gz  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/non-free/binary-freebsd-i386/Packages.gz  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/contrib/source/Sources.gz  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/non-free/source/Sources.gz  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release: Couldn't access keyring: 'No such file or directory'
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_restricted_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/contrib Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_contrib_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/non-free Packages (/var/db/apt/state/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_non-free_binary-freebsd-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.