install packages

[Luca Antonello]

Hello! I am a new user cubieboard! I suffered a problem that I can not solve:
I installed Lubuntu but the repositories are too old and I can not update the software or install new packages. how can I fix it?
sorry for my english

[Ernesto Celis]

Too old?

Which Lubuntu version?

Any specific error?

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[Luca Antonello]

is the version 12.10.
I followed the following guide: http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/cb2/installation/cb2_lubuntu_nand_install

when I try to install any package gives me the following error:
Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

and if you run apt-get update: E: Some index files failed to download. They Have Been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[Ernesto Celis]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Luca Antonello
<luca.an...@gmail.com> wrote:
> is the version 12.10.
> I followed the following guide:
> http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/cb2/installation/cb2_lubuntu_nand_install
>
> when I try to install any package gives me the following error:
> Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
> --fix-missing?
>
> and if you run apt-get update: E: Some index files failed to download. They
> Have Been ignored, or old ones used instead.

If you know you are connected to the Internet (i.e. you can ping
google.com) you could try editing the repositories in
/etc/apt/sources.list

I don't know which repos has your distribution configured, but try
with archive.canonical.com or archive.ubuntu.com

This https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu can be helpful

>
> Il giorno mercoledì 27 agosto 2014 22:07:47 UTC+2, Luca Antonello ha
> scritto:
>>
>> Hello! I am a new user cubieboard! I suffered a problem that I can not
>> solve:
>> I installed Lubuntu but the repositories are too old and I can not update
>> the software or install new packages. how can I fix it?
>> sorry for my english
>

[Luca Antonello]

I solved it by editing the file sources.list like this:
# Required
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-security main restricted universe multiverse

[Rudie Lamprecht]

Thanks very much look like this is gonna solve my similar problem.

Cannot install tightvncserver. Hopefully with the new repositories it will work.

I will let you know.

Thanks again