Getting errors when trying to run sudo apt-get update [duplicate]

Question

So I'm having the following issues

Reading package lists... Done
W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/stable/ubuntu loki Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/os-patches/ubuntu loki Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/stable/ubuntu/dists/loki/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/os-patches/ubuntu/dists/loki/main/source/Sources  404  Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

can anyone tell me what's going on? I did a clean install of loki.

I wanted to try the solution from here but it's not applicable exactly for my situation and I didn't know how to alter it for me. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The elementary PPAs use the underlying Ubuntu release names rather than the elementary release name (see here).

For some reason your system is trying to fetch packages from http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/stable/ubuntu/dists/loki instead of http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/stable/ubuntu/dists/xenial (Loki is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) ). You can rectify this by modifying /etc/apt/sources.list and replacing occurrences of ubuntu/dists/loki with ubuntu/dists/xenial and then re-running sudo apt update.

Quite why this has happened I am unsure. You should file a bug report about it on Launchpad.

Answer 2

I've got the same problem (sources.list below). I created a USB Live using Unetbootin (on a Mac).

deb cdrom:[elementary OS 0.4 _Loki_ - Stable amd64 (20160909)]/ xenial contrib main non-free
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse

I found a solution: I commented out the first line of the sources.list (the CD-ROM one). I was also getting appstream errors, so I followed this workaround: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/1601971

Update: sources.list keeps adding the offending line again, so i keep having to edit sources.list to fix it. Should I log this as a bug?

Answer 3

the elementary list is in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elementary.list

the changes will be also happen in patches; /etc/apt/sources.list.d/patches.list there are also loki Release need to be replace by xenial

Answer 4

I don't know if someone still has this problem. Anyway, I solved my problem updating those files:

• appcenter.list
• elementary.list
• patches.list

All files are in /etc/apt/source.list.d

And follow instructions from this URL https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1629646