Missing php5-curl package on Ubuntu droplet

August 2, 2014 7.4k views
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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?

2 comments
  • leon.amarant November 15, 2014

    I’m having the same issue.

    When I run sudo apt-get install curl I get:

    Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
curl is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

    When I run sudo apt-get install php5-curl I get:

    .....
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: 91.189.91.13 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: 91.189.91.13 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

    My Droplet is Ubuntu 12.10 x64 Desktop. And my php version can be seen here: http://theseabreezeinn.com/php-info.php

    I tried “asb"s anwesr below to no avail. I’m at a loss…please help!

  • kamaln7 MOD November 16, 2014

    @leon.amarant: Have you run sudo apt-get update after running the command that @asb posted? It looks like the changes to sources.list haven’t taken effect. Try running that and then installing php5-curl:

    sudo apt-get install php5-curl

    Once you’ve done that, I recommend taking a snapshot of your droplet and trying to upgrade to a more recent version of Ubuntu, as 12.10 is no longer supported so you are not receiving both security and regular updates.

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asb MOD August 4, 2014

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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