Comments on: Upgrade Problems With Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy”? Try a Different Repository

By: Krastyo

Krastyo — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:38:16 +0000

Ok I would like an advise too. I installed Ubunutu 7.10 on my desktop and upgraded the copy via the user interface. It all upgraded OK, but know when I check the repositories (System -> Software Source) it is all showing the 7.10 links instead of 8.04 ones… When I change servers as mentioned above I get err msg:

Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/univ… 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.45 80]
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Any ideas apart from downloading the 8.04 CD and install form it? Thank you.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:15:59 +0000

I have this problem of upgading from 7.10 Gutsy to 8.04.
There is no more support for 7.10, repositories are not available anymore, and this is quite too much, no support after 2 years of release.
Now, probably will be possible to upgrade on 9.04, but who knows how will this going on, since, I have a several PC's to upgrade,
and my VGA's aren't very good, already had the problems with VGA…

By: clvg

clvg — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:10:20 +0000

Thanks for the tip…I’ve been putting off my desktop upgrade for months due to a sources error I couldn’t pin down. This fixed it right up. Cheers!

By: ianm

ianm — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:27:50 +0000

I had problems (stopping at fetching file 78 of 80) but by disabling a third party software source (something like tux.java) the whole process worked . . . I can clarify if anyone needs it.

By: Al-Karim

Al-Karim — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:49:19 +0000

i have tried to upgrade from Fiesty 7.04 to the new gusty. i have tried changing the software sources but still the same results. I get this message after i change the soft ware source:
W: GPG error: http://mirror.noreply.org feisty Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY CFF71CB3AFA44BDD

then this one when i try to do the upgrade

Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/partner/binary-i386/Packages.gz Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/partner/binary-i386/Packages.gz Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)

any one got any ideas why or what software source i should use i am going with the best fit one it gives you.

By: lennart

lennart — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:40:20 +0000

hi
since a few hours i’m even working with this problem but i still can’t fix it. i changed the sources to ftp but it still won’t work.
is there anybody who can help me?

By: zelrik

zelrik — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:43:34 +0000

I couldnt upgrade it on my laptop. After trying to configure it he told me something like “Sorry man, I failed, so I’ll backup to 7.04″

:,(((

By: Paul Brain

Paul Brain — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:05:21 +0000

Found the solution ::

In Software sources change the local repository and select ftp instead of http.

I’m now in full upgrade mode.

Paul

By: Paul Brain

Paul Brain — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:53:55 +0000

I’ve been getting the same ‘Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)”

Have changed repositories, but cannot get past this.

Paul

By: RascalNet

RascalNet — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:05:39 +0000

I was having a problem because ubuntu.beryl-project.org was not responding. So I disabled it in sources.list. It seemed to do the trick.