thanks for the help
I have had trouble updating for ages, but only just got round to checking it. Updated to Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick at Christmas 2010.
The essential problem is synaptic (or update manager) won't talk to the repository.
I get:
Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...ck/Release.gpg Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...slation-en.bz2 Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...tion-en_IE.bz2 Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...slation-en.bz2 Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...tion-en_IE.bz2 Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...slation-en.bz2 Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...tion-en_IE.bz2 Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...slation-en.bz2 Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...tion-en_IE.bz2 Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...es/Release.gpg Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...slation-en.bz2 Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...tion-en_IE.bz2 ....,
I have truncated the above. When I go through these manually on the heanet.ie server, I can't find these files. it's not surprising because these files are not there ... instead there are file with en_GB and en_US suffixes. Why is synaptic appending IE suffixes to the query for the server?
However, even when I reset my sources file to contain just these:
deb http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main universe restricted multiverse deb http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates universe main multiverse restricted deb http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-proposed universe main multiverse restricted deb http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security universe main multiverse restricted deb http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-backports main multiverse restricted universe deb-src http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main universe restricted multiverse deb-src http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security universe main multiverse restricted deb-src http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates universe main multiverse restricted deb-src http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-proposed universe main multiverse restricted deb-src http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-backports universe main multiverse restricted deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu maverick main #Third party developers repository
I still get the error.
Where has the system got these filenames stored or where is it getting these aberrant filenames from? Is it generating them from system or BIOS settings? Can I change them so i can update from the HEANET server again?
Thanks
Apologies if this is not quite appropriate for this forum. I'm usually asking data munging questions not Admin rubbish
Rosser
