By ivdelchev
Hey guys, it seems that my installation is missing the php5-curl package. When I try to run “apt-get intall php5-curl” I get the following:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
dbconfig-common libmcrypt4 php5-mcrypt
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
php5-curl
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 28.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 116 kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
php5-curl
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main php5-curl amd64 5.4.6-1ubuntu1
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/php5/php5-curl_5.4.6-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
And if I run apt-get update it is full of “not found” errors. Any ideas?
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The package php5-curl 5.4.6 doesn’t seem to be part of any supported Ubuntu release:
$ rmadison php5-curl
php5-curl | 5.3.2-1ubuntu4 | lucid | amd64, armel, i386, ia64, powerpc, sparc
php5-curl | 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.26 | lucid-security | amd64, armel, i386, ia64, powerpc, sparc
php5-curl | 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.26 | lucid-updates | amd64, armel, i386, ia64, powerpc, sparc
php5-curl | 5.3.10-1ubuntu3 | precise | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, powerpc
php5-curl | 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13 | precise-security | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, powerpc
php5-curl | 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13 | precise-updates | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, powerpc
php5-curl | 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4 | trusty | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el
php5-curl | 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.3 | trusty-security | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el
php5-curl | 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.3 | trusty-updates | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el
php5-curl | 5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu3 | utopic | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el
I suspect that you must be running an Ubuntu release that has reached “End of Life.” If that’s the case, I’d strongly encourage you to upgrade to a more recent release. If you need to temporarily stay on the outdated release and need to install new packages, you must edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change archive.ubuntu.com to old-releases.ubuntu.com
Here’s a one liner to do that:
sudo sed -i -e 's/archive.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
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