Errors running apt-get update and apt-get install mysql-server

apt aptitude amazon-ec2

Since yesterday I've been trying to run

apt-get update

unsuccessfully in Ubuntu instances I am creating on the EC2.

In specific I've been getting these errors:

Ign http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main amd64 Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/universe amd64 Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/multiverse amd64 Packages
Err http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main Sources
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/universe Sources
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/universe amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/multiverse amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/main/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/universe/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80]

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
root@ip-10-168-230-63:/etc/apt#

Also trying to install mysql-server, I've been getting errors:

root@ip-10-168-230-63:/etc/apt# apt-get install mysql-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libhtml-template-perl mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server-core-5.1
Suggested packages:
  libipc-sharedcache-perl tinyca mailx
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libhtml-template-perl mysql-server mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server-core-5.1
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 81 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.1MB/12.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 29.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Err http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main mysql-server-core-5.1 amd64 5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
  403  Forbidden
Err http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main mysql-server-5.1 amd64 5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
  403  Forbidden
Err http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main mysql-server all 5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
  403  Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mysql-5.1/mysql-server-core-5.1_5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1_amd64.deb  403  Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mysql-5.1/mysql-server-5.1_5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1_amd64.deb  403  Forbidden
Failed to fetch http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mysql-5.1/mysql-server_5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1_all.deb  403  Forbidden
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
root@ip-10-168-230-63:/etc/apt#

I did run

apt-get update --fix-missing

without any luck.

Any ideas?

I have done these tasks many times on Ubuntu Linux instances running in the AWS EC2 without any problems. Thanks in advance for your help!


This was a known bug with Amazon S3. To fix this, just run sudo apt-get update


Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has reached end of life (EOL) as of April 10 2012, which means there are no further updates (not even security fixes) and the package archives are moved from archive.ubuntu.com to old-releases.ubuntu.com, which is the reason for the error you are seeing.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and fix your package sources. Note that you need to also remove the us-west-1.ec2 prefix: there are no dedicated EC2 package servers for EOL releases.


The fix was to add these lines to sources.list:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid main multiverse universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main multiverse universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-updates main multiverse universe

Thanks for the replies.


With this advice, and other notes that mentioned "archive" changed to "old-releases" the following snippet helped me move forward.

sudo sed 's@http://archive\.ubuntu\.com/@http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/@' -i /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

then I was able to install whatever package it is I needed (in my case php5-sqlite)

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