Ubuntu apt-get unable to fetch packages

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Just installed Ubuntu 13 10  Saucy  and anything I try to install via sudo apt-get install is failing and throwing a series of 404 erros   Example - installing tmux   jeeves HAL  hadoop  gt  sudo apt-get install tmux  sudo  password for jeeves   Reading package lists    Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information    Done The following NEW packages will be installed    tmux 0 upgraded  1 newly installed  0 to remove and 0 not upgraded  Need to get 247 kB of archives  After this operation  577 kB of additional disk space will be used  WARNING  The following packages cannot be authenticated    tmux Install these packages without verification  y N   Y Err http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu  saucy main tmux amd64 1 8-4   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Failed to fetch http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu pool main t tmux tmux 1 8-4 amd64 deb  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  E  Unable to fetch some archives  maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing    In this case it can t fetch an archive URL    I get something similar when installing mysql-server       Failed to fetch http   security ubuntu com ubuntu pool main m mysql-5 5 mysql-common 5 5 37-0ubuntu0 13 10 1 all deb  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Failed to fetch http   security ubuntu com ubuntu pool main m mysql-5 5 libmysqlclient18 5 5 37-0ubuntu0 13 10 1 amd64 deb  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Failed to fetch http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu pool main libd libdbi-perl libdbi-perl 1 627-1 amd64 deb  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 15 80             and numerous other packages   I even tried sudo apt-get update and running with --fix-missing   Is the Ubuntu repository just down  which seems odd given how many people rely on it  or did I miss something   EDIT  Here s what happens when I try sudo apt-get update  The update itself doesn t work because of resources that can t be found   gt  sudo apt-get update Hit http   download virtualbox org maverick InRelease Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy InRelease                                                 Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates InRelease                                         Ign http   extras ubuntu com saucy InRelease                                                   Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports InRelease            Hit http   download virtualbox org maverick contrib amd64 Packages    Hit http   download virtualbox org maverick non-free amd64 Packages   Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy Release gpg                    Hit http   extras ubuntu com saucy Release gpg                        Hit http   download virtualbox org maverick contrib i386 Packages     Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates Release gpg                                        Hit http   download virtualbox org maverick non-free i386 Packages                                Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports Release gpg                                      Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy Release                                                    Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security InRelease                                           Hit http   extras ubuntu com saucy Release                            Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates Release                                       Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security Release gpg                                    Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports Release              Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security Release                 Hit http   extras ubuntu com saucy main Sources                       Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy main Sources DiffIndex         Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security main Sources DiffIndex  Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy restricted Sources DiffIndex   Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security restricted Sources DiffIndex Hit http   extras ubuntu com saucy main amd64 Packages                Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy universe Sources DiffIndex     Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security universe Sources DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy multiverse Sources DiffIndex   Hit http   extras ubuntu com saucy main i386 Packages                 Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security multiverse Sources DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy main amd64 Packages DiffIndex  Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security main amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy restricted amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security restricted amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy universe amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security universe amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy multiverse amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security multiverse amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy main i386 Packages DiffIndex   Ign http   download virtualbox org maverick contrib Translation-en US Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security main i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   download virtualbox org maverick contrib Translation-en    Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy restricted i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   download virtualbox org maverick non-free Translation-en US Ign http   download virtualbox org maverick non-free Translation-en   Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy universe i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy multiverse i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security restricted i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security universe i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security multiverse i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   extras ubuntu com saucy main Translation-en US Ign http   extras ubuntu com saucy main Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates main Sources DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates restricted Sources DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates universe Sources DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates multiverse Sources DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates main amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates restricted amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates universe amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates multiverse amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates main i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates restricted i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates universe i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates multiverse i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports main Sources DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports restricted Sources DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports universe Sources DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports multiverse Sources DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports main amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports restricted amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports universe amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports multiverse amd64 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports main i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports restricted i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports universe i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports multiverse i386 Packages DiffIndex Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security main Translation-en US Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security main Translation-en Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security multiverse Translation-en US Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security multiverse Translation-en Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security restricted Translation-en US Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security restricted Translation-en Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security universe Translation-en US Ign http   security ubuntu com saucy-security universe Translation-en Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security main Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security restricted Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security universe Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security multiverse Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security main amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security restricted amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security universe amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security multiverse amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security main i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security restricted i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security universe i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Err http   security ubuntu com saucy-security multiverse i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80  Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy main Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy main Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy multiverse Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy multiverse Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy restricted Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy restricted Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy universe Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy universe Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates main Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates main Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates multiverse Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates multiverse Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates restricted Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates restricted Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates universe Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates universe Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports main Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports main Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports multiverse Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports multiverse Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports restricted Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports restricted Translation-en Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports universe Translation-en US Ign http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports universe Translation-en Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy main Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy restricted Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy universe Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy multiverse Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy main amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy restricted amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy universe amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy multiverse amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy main i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy restricted i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy universe i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy multiverse i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates main Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates restricted Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates universe Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates multiverse Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates main amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates restricted amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates universe amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates multiverse amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates main i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates restricted i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates universe i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-updates multiverse i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports main Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports restricted Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports universe Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports multiverse Sources   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports main amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports restricted amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports universe amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports multiverse amd64 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports main i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports restricted i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports universe i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  Err http   us archive ubuntu com saucy-backports multiverse i386 Packages   404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80  W  Failed to fetch http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy main source Sources  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80   W  Failed to fetch http   security ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-security main source Sources  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80   W  Failed to fetch http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy restricted source Sources  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80   W  Failed to fetch http   security ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-security restricted source Sources  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 23 80   W  Failed to fetch http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy universe source Sources  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80   W  Failed to fetch http   security ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-security universe 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http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-backports restricted binary-amd64 Packages  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80   W  Failed to fetch http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-backports universe binary-amd64 Packages  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80   W  Failed to fetch http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-backports multiverse binary-amd64 Packages  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80   W  Failed to fetch http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-backports main binary-i386 Packages  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80   W  Failed to fetch http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-backports restricted binary-i386 Packages  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80   W  Failed to fetch http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-backports universe binary-i386 Packages  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80   W  Failed to fetch http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-backports multiverse binary-i386 Packages  404  Not Found  IP  91 189 91 24 80   E  Some index files failed to download  They have been ignored  or old ones used instead

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Ran into issues like  while running sudo apt-get install python3-env on Ubuntu WSL   Err 1 http   security ubuntu com ubuntu xenial-security universe amd64 python3 5-venv amd64 3 5 2-2ubuntu0 16 04 9  404  Not Found  IP  2001 67c 1360 8001  23 80    Running      sudo apt-get update   fixed those issues

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As Tariq Khan suggested  I did the same thing and it worked out    FIX UBUNTU 14 10 UNICORN APT-GET UPDATE  Backup the repo first    sudo cp  etc apt sources list  etc apt sources list backup    sudo vi  etc apt sources list   rename us archive or archive  in http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu     as  http   old-release ubuntu com ubuntu   rename http   security ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-security universe binary-i386 Packages   as  http   old-releases ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-security universe binary-i386 Packages    sudo apt-get update

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If you re having the issue with VirtualBox and a Virtual Machine I fixed it by changing Settings - gt  Network - gt  Attached To from NAT to Bridged Adapter

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Just for the sake of any Googlers  if you re getting this error while building a Docker image  preface the failing RUN command with  apt-get update  amp  amp    This happens when Docker uses a cached image  Why the cached image wouldn t have the latest repo information the second time around is totally beyond me  but prefacing every single apt-get with an update does solve the problem

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I have been fighting the same thing for a while.

after all the research, this is the best solution.....

add the following to your resolve.conf file /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

https://serverfault.com/questions/717226/ubuntu14-04-unable-to-apt-get-update/771826#771826

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In my case it failed to fetch be archives ubuntu com  Belgium  so I generated a new sources plist on this link as recommended by the accepted answer   The thing that solved it for me was just to change the country to United States when generating the sources plist  Then I could run this again   apt-get update

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For simplicity sake here is what I did   cd  etc apt mkdir test cp sources lst test cd test sed -i --  s us archive old-releases g    sed -i --  s security old-releases g    cp sources lst     sudo apt-get update

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ON MAC  Nothing was helping until I realised ScreenTime was blocking the update website  Turning off content filtering fix it

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I got this issue when the Virtualbox had the wrong networking  I ve updated to NAT and was able to get on internet and download packages from us archive ubuntu com

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This can be caused by the use of a proxy as well. Check if you have proxy definitions in the /etc/environment file:

cat /etc/environment

If you have anything with http_proxy or https_proxy upper or lower case then unset each of them.

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I tried using    sudo do-release-upgrade   and then use    sudo apt-get update   after that you will be able to install any packages   If this did not worked for you try to change the network conf in apt conf

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Ran into a similar issue   This is linked to using a non LTS version of Ubuntu called an  End of life version   As those have discontinued support  You can check if your Ubuntu is at the end of life version on this link   The simplest solution is to do the following two steps    Backup your sources list sudo cp  etc apt sources list  etc apt sources list backup Open the sources file  etc apt sources list and rename all the instances of us archive or archive in   http   us archive ubuntu com ubuntu    to   http   old-releases ubuntu com ubuntu   Also do the same for the http   security ubuntu com ubuntu dists saucy-security universe binary-i386 Packages Run sudo apt-get update after doing the above    That should fix the issue   Warning  Please update your ubuntu to an LTS version as soon as possible otherwise you won t be getting the latest security patches  This is definitely not a solution that you would deploy on production machines

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I tried this really interesting solution today, which worked for me on an Ubuntu server. Some DNS or another issue in the apt was making it adamant to not installing some packages from a custom PPA. What I did was install the apt-fast package and use it to install my packages instead of apt.

apt-fast is an alternative to apt which works on top of apt but uses aria2c to download packages. It is used to increase the download speed. In my case, it also solved whatever network problem was making apt to fail.

Using it is exactly the same as apt:

sudo apt-fast install package-name

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I recently had an issue with apt-get update getting stuck at 0%;

0% [Connecting to security.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1360:8001::21)]

Could be some sort of DNS issue on ipv6. I just add this as a workaround;

-o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true

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After trying all the suggestions given here and other threads like this one I still couldn t get apt get to work on my Vagrant Ubuntu 16 04  In the end removing the file apt conf from  etc apt resolved the issue for me  My remaining files in that directory are  vagrant default    ls -l  etc apt  total 68 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr 15 12 20 apt conf d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 May 21  2019 auth conf d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    53 Mar 19 19 50 preferences drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr 14  2016 preferences d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3166 Sep 10 15 55 sources list drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep 10 16 04 sources list d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17640 Mar 19 20 04 trusted gpg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17281 Mar 19 20 01 trusted gpg  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep 10 13 45 trusted gpg d

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