I have an old droplet that I’m trying to upgrade. I’m getting this:
root@ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc3-01:~# apt-get update
Ign:1 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu groovy InRelease
Hit:2 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security InRelease
Ign:3 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu groovy-updates InRelease
Ign:4 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu groovy-backports InRelease
Err:5 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu groovy Release
404 Not Found [IP: 104.21.29.13 80]
Err:6 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu groovy-updates Release
404 Not Found [IP: 104.21.29.13 80]
Err:7 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu groovy-backports Release
404 Not Found [IP: 104.21.29.13 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu groovy Release' no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu groovy-updates Release' no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu groovy-backports Release' no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
root@ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc3-01:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
ubuntu-advantage-tools
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
root@ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc3-01:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
distro-info
The following packages will be upgraded:
ubuntu-advantage-tools
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 838 kB/855 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2979 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Err:1 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu groovy-updates/main amd64 ubuntu-advantage-tools amd64 27.1~20.10.1
404 Not Found [IP: 104.21.29.13 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/ubuntu-advantage-tools/ubuntu-advantage-tools_27.1~20.10.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 104.21.29.13 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
root@ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-nyc3-01:~#
Note: It made me add a tag. The only one available was 20.04, but according to my droplet info it’s 20.10.
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Hi there,
What I could suggest is following the steps from this tutorial here on how to upgrade your Ubuntu distribution:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa
In case that this still does not work, can you confirm the Ubuntu distribution that you are upgrading from?
The error indicates that the
ubuntu groovy
repositories are no longer available, this means that you would need to update all of theubuntu groovy
references from your/etc/apt/sources.list
file to reference the correct Ubuntu distribution that you are using.Best,
Bobby