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404 when doing apt-get update

Posted on January 27, 2017

Hi there,

I’ve been trying to install apache2 but I’m receiving 404 errors. I did ping google.com and it works. the 404 urls are generates from: http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/

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@amanqour

If this is a new Droplet and there’s nothing important on it, you may want to destroy and recreate it. I’ve ran in to this a few times and that generally resolves the issue. It’s been a while since this has happened though. What version of Ubuntu are you deploying? (i.e. 14.04, 16.04, etc)

This is kind of a new droplet, it’s 24 days old but I created it from 3 years old snapshot :) it’s Ubuntu 14.04

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