Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope repositories update fix

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July 9th, 2009 Permalink

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and recently encountered a problem updating the package sources or when reloading the repositories so was unable to add new repos via synaptic or apt-get. The console output was something like Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Sources Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/contrib Sources Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/non-free Sources Convert: acl… I searched for [...]

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and recently encountered a problem updating the package sources or when reloading the repositories so was unable to add new repos via synaptic or apt-get. The console output was something like

Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Sources
Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/contrib Sources
Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/non-free Sources
Convert: acl...

I searched for solutions and found it here.

It involves uninstalling two packages namely ia32-archive and ia32-apt-get via synaptic or apt-get.


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