{"id":894,"date":"2016-12-14T14:45:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haxed.me.uk\/?p=894"},"modified":"2016-12-14T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:50:11","slug":"upgrading-ubuntu-12-04-14-04-getting-404-not-found-repo-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/2016\/12\/14\/upgrading-ubuntu-12-04-14-04-getting-404-not-found-repo-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 when getting 404 not found for repo links"},"content":{"rendered":"

A customer had this issue with their very old Ubuntu 12.04 machine. <\/p>\n

Use this link to generate a new sources.list, and populate your \/etc\/apt\/sources.list with that detail. Backup the current sources.list you have first.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/repogen.simplylinux.ch\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Then to update with the new repo, use:<\/p>\n

\r\napt-get update\r\napt-get dist-upgrade\r\n<\/pre>\n
Please note that going from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 isn’t something I’d recommend you do if you don’t know what your doing, certainly expect the possibility that the box might not come back up.<\/p>\n
Try populating your \/etc\/apt\/sources.list with this:<\/p>\n
#——————————————————————————#
\n#                            OFFICIAL UBUNTU REPOS                             #
\n#——————————————————————————#<\/p>\n
###### Ubuntu Main Repos
\ndeb http:\/\/uk.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ precise main
\ndeb-src http:\/\/uk.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ precise main <\/p>\n
###### Ubuntu Update Repos
\ndeb http:\/\/uk.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ precise-security main
\ndeb-src http:\/\/uk.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ precise-security main <\/p>\n
Failing that, delete the sources.list and put this instead in it:<\/p>\n
#——————————————————————————#
\n#                            OFFICIAL UBUNTU REPOS                             #
\n#——————————————————————————#<\/p>\n
###### Ubuntu Main Repos
\ndeb http:\/\/uk.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ trusty main
\ndeb-src http:\/\/uk.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ trusty main <\/p>\n
###### Ubuntu Update Repos
\ndeb http:\/\/uk.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ trusty-security main
\ndeb-src http:\/\/uk.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ trusty-security main <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A customer had this issue with their very old Ubuntu 12.04 machine. Use this link to generate a new sources.list, and populate your \/etc\/apt\/sources.list with that detail. Backup the current sources.list you have first. https:\/\/repogen.simplylinux.ch\/ Then to update with the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,61,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aptitude","category-rackspace","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}