• June 2015

Linux Mint install on Jun 29, 2014

Neighbor B helped me install Linux Mint on a small computer/device that housed Windows XP.

- veery
- s

- root and s-

MP3 - Banshee

Now I need to determine a user for this nifty little computer that's about the size of a saucer plate, except it's squar. Thin, about one-inch thick.

B's workplace were discarding several of these computers, so he salvaged them.

I could purchase a small monitor and wireless keyboard and mouse to a have a simple "desktop" system for development.

I rarely take my laptop elsewhere.

June 2015

https://smyl.es/how-to-fix-ubuntudebian-apt-get-404-not-found-package-repository-errors-saucy-raring-quantal-oneiric-natty/

If you’re using a normal version of Ubuntu such as Saucy, Raring, Quantal, Oneiric, Natty, Maverick, etc, you may have already (and will eventually) start getting “Failed to fetch 404 Not Found” errors when trying to run apt-get update , or even sometimes running apt-get install , but fear not, it is easy to fix, and here’s how…

Run this command below on your server and it will replace all of the archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com package repository URLs with old-releases.ubuntu.com

sudo sed -i -e 's/archive.ubuntu.com\|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

For Linux Mint, run this command as well:

sudo sed -i -e 's/archive.ubuntu.com\|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

You may also want to see if there are other files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ that need to be updated, which can be done with a simple grep command:

grep -E 'archive.ubuntu.com|security.ubuntu.com' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

Now update apt-get sources:
sudo apt-get update

Profit!

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