Dapper-to-Hardy upgrade fails on PowerPC (prerequisite dapper-backports missing)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Upgrading a Mac G3 from Ubuntu 6.06.2 to 8.04 fails at the beginning (prerequisites).
Command:
gksu "update-manager -d"
Error (from /var/log/
'Failed to fetch http://
This URL is generated by the application and inserted into "/etc/apt/
I've checked manually, and the URL in fact does not exist!
I have found another URL that may be the correct one, but I'm not sure:
http://
Anyway, what is the workaround for this?
The error also appears as: upgrader- apt'
ERROR Can not find backport 'release-
in the dist-upgrade log.
I can't get the logs out of that machine without great effort. Let me know if you absolutely need them.