Comment 62 for bug 153980

<email address hidden>:
> One of the issues in update-manager we
> discovered is that if you have "APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated" set to
> true in /etc/apt/apt.conf the upgrade will not work.

Thank you very much for your answer...unfortunately, I'm a newbie to
Linux, I've never seen this OS before, I was a Windows XP user (but
now I am tired about microsoft and I want to change), so I really
don't know how to configure linux, nor kubuntu.
So, please, could you tell me WHERE or HOW should I set "false" the
"APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated", in order to update my adept?? I've
opened Adept manager but there are no clues about this option in the
GUI...maybe should I execute some commands in the terminal?? If yes,
which strings or commands?

I have kubuntu 7.10, I've just installed and I want to update some
programs, like kopete, for example, or install amsn, but since it
doesn't work i'm afraid I cannot do nothing!!

Thank you very much for reading, and more thanks if you will give
answers to me!!

Bye and good job!

2008/2/25, Michael Vogt <email address hidden>:
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> Unfortunately the error message is the same for some different problems.
> Some outside of the control of update-manager (e.g. if mirrors are not
> available or if there are network/proxy issues).
>
> For hardy we worked on the robustness of the tool and a lot of the
> problems should be fixed. One of the issues in update-manager we
> discovered is that if you have "APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated" set to
> true in /etc/apt/apt.conf the upgrade will not work. This is a bug in
> update-manager and a fix is prepeared in #195419 (thanks to Kolbjørn
> Barmen for helping finding it). As a workaround for this particular
> problem, just unset this before the upgrade and then it should work.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> --
> 7.04->7.10 "Upgrade" fails: "Getting upgrade prerequisites failed"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153980
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>
> Status in Source Package "update-manager" in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Update 19/10/07:
> 24 hours after release of 7.10, and after several unsuccessful updates in that time period, I have tried the update again, and it appears to be working -- after no changes from me. Is it possible that these errors were generated by server-side file problems? Perhaps certain mirrors generated problems for people, and those mirrors have since been fixed? Perhaps some of the people below with different error logs still have problems due to different bugs? In any case I suggest that whatever bug I experienced be dealt with before it hits the wrong CEO in the next release :)
>
> Original description:
> Binary package hint: update-manager
>
> Upgrading Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 with the "Upgrade" button. The speed of download was very slow even though the speed of download from my chosen update source was very fast.
>
> "Getting upgrade prerequisites failed
>
> The system was unable to get the prerequisites for the upgrade. The upgrade will abort now and restore the original system state.
>
> Please report this as a bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport."
>

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