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[glemi]

Good afternoon to everyone!

I have installed Kubuntu 7.10 as a virtual machine with the vmplayer on Windows 7. It's working fine, except that I would like to install some software using one of those package managers like adept or aptitude or apt-get etc. The internet connection is working, find for all I know, at least I know I can browse the web and make some ssh connections (which are the reason I'm using linux in the first place).

But I can't install ANYTHING. whatever I sudo apt-get install, it says the following

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

E: Couldn't find package sshfs

When I try apt-get update I see the following. Maybe it's a hint for finding out what's wrong. I tried different mirrors with the same result.

Ign cdrom://Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon - Release i386 (20071016.1) gutsy/main Translation-en_US

Ign cdrom://Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon - Release i386 (20071016.1) gutsy/restricted Translation-en_US

Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com gutsy Release.gpg

Ign http://archive.canonical.com gutsy/partner Translation-en_US

Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy Release.gpg

Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Translation-en_US

Hit http://archive.canonical.com gutsy Release

Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Translation-en_US

Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/restricted Translation-en_US

Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Translation-en_US

Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy Release

Hit http://archive.canonical.com gutsy/partner Packages

Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages

Hit http://archive.canonical.com gutsy/partner Sources

Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages

Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/restricted Packages

Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Packages

Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages

404 Not Found

Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages

404 Not Found

Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/restricted Packages

404 Not Found

Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Packages

404 Not Found

Fetched 1B in 0s (3B/s)

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)

E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

same problem when I use one of the gui frontends. I'm using NAT as network setting. Could it be that there is some problem with the NAT? (no improvement though when I try bridged).

[Borja_Mari · Accepted solution]

Hi,

as you should already know, the ubuntu 7.10 isn't supported since 18 April, 2009.

Then is very normal that the 7.10's packages repositories actually doesn't exist.

Just take a look to this taken from your error output:

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz

If you try to navigate to this place:

http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/

you will see that the gutsy subdirectory doesn't exist

IMHO i will recommend you to install the last ubuntu version that is a long time support (LTS).

Hope this helps

Regards/Saludos,
Pablo

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[glemi]

Cool, thank you for the quick answer Pablo!

I knew there would to be some competent people here.

Amazing how fast time passes :smileygrin:

Best regards

Clemens