longgone Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I am having problems trying to do updates on PCLOS. I click on the task bar icon, enter the password, get to the updates portion , click on reload and can sit there for however long I want with nothing happening. I wait a reasonable amount of time the click cancel, get the notification that not all of the repositories downloaded, close that out with nothing accomplished. I have tried changing the repositories with no change in the outcome. Could it be that my PCLOS install is out of date and no longer supported? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 What version of PCLos do you have installed? Also, have you tried updating via the command line? # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade It may be safer to use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' if your version of PCLos is old. Just change the second part to read 'dist-upgrade' instead of just 'upgrade': # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longgone Posted January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted January 13, 2011 root@localhost dale]# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgradeErr http://pclosusers.com pclinuxos/2010 release Could not connect to pclosusers.com:80 (216.55.163.195). - connect (110 Connection timed out)Failed to fetch http://pclosusers.com/pclosfiles/pclinuxos/2010/base/release Could not connect to pclosusers.com:80 (216.55.163.195). - connect (110 Connection timed out)Reading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneW: Release files for some repositories could not be retrieved or authenticated. Such repositories are being ignored.W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problemsE: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.[This is the response I get using those commands ,,, does not look good to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onederer Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 I am having problems trying to do updates on PCLOS. I click on the task bar icon, enter the password, get to the updates portion , click on reload and can sit there for however long I want with nothing happening. I wait a reasonable amount of time the click cancel, get the notification that not all of the repositories downloaded, close that out with nothing accomplished. I have tried changing the repositories with no change in the outcome. Could it be that my PCLOS install is out of date and no longer supported?I usually use Synaptic to get my upgrades. When I update, if it tells me that it couldn't complete the entire task, I keep on trying different repositories 'till I hit the jackpot. Then I do the upgrade.It's happened to me before that there were no upgrades available. The repositories were shut down for that version of Linux. The older version was no longer supported. The only upgrades that were available was for the newer version of PCLOS.Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 This is the response I get using those commands ,,, does not look good to me.Hi Dale, what you do is for look for something called " software center " then " update package sources list" what i am using myself is .... http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/http://spout.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/http://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/os/Linux/distr/texstar/pclinuxos/apt/ go to " software center " >> "synaptic package manager " make the changes and then updated your sources. and you should be good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillD Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 PCLos is awfully dependent on what Bill is doing at a particular time; if he is working on the next version, or if Houston has bad weather, it just may not get updated. I remember the year of Hurricane Ike, he quit updating for several months in the fall, and then in mid January, the updates stopped permanently for that edition. and then Gnome version came out next (late spring). This problem is why I switched to Ubuntu. I much prefer Mint because it is much easier to install than Ubuntu (even better than PCLos), but again it is a one man distro . . . Just my two cents worth.Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryB Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 I think this a server issue rather then a Texstar issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 I think so too considering I just tried to load the url in the browser and get a 404 error. I also tried to load just http://pclosusers.com and it also down. Try changing your mirror in Synaptic.Just for good measure: pclosusers.com seems to be down http://isitup.org/pclosusers.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Golden Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 (edited) I tried a different server and had success.It was a server issue for me.There were no updates.Bill is right though about Tex, when he's busy on a new release, at some point he stops updating the servers.This happened several months before PCLinuxOS 2010 was released. Edited January 13, 2011 by Frank Golden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longgone Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 http://spout.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/http://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/os/Linux/distr/t.../pclinuxos/apt/These two repositories don't appear in my list, but I did add an additional repository to the one I already had and picked up 4 updates but that was all that was available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 (edited) These two repositories don't appear in my list, but I did add an additional repository to the one I already had and picked up 4 updates but that was all that was available.Dale what Pclos you using kde, gnome, ?????????? and only 4 updates ????????????????? I would also had http://ftp.nluug.nl/ibiblio/distributions/pclinuxos/apt/These are goodhttp://ftp.nluug.nl/ibiblio/distributions/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.vim.org/ibiblio/distributions/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/pclinuxonline.com/apt/# http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/Linux/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Linux/packages/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/PCLinuxOS/apt/# http://mirror.pclinuxclub.com/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/PCLinuxOS/apt/# http://gnupg.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/Linux/PCLinuxOS/apt/# http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/pclinuxos/apt/# http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/pclinuxos/apt/# http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.ch.debian.org/mirror/pclinuxos/apt/# http://gnustep.ethz.ch/mirror/pclinuxos/apt/# http://debian.ethz.ch/mirror/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/pclinuxos/apt/# http://mirrors.xservers.ro/pclinuxos/apt/# http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/distributions/texstar/pclinuxos/apt/http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/http://spout.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/http://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/os/Linux/distr/texstar/pclinuxos/apt/#http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/texstar/pclinuxos/apt/ Don't use these # http://pclosusers.com/pclosfiles/# http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/pclinuxos/apt/# http://www.mirror.in.th/osarchive/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/# ftp://ftp.pbone.net/pub/pclinuxos/apt/# http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/pclinuxos/apt/ Edited January 14, 2011 by steel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Nice list Louis!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Nice list Louis!! thanks Josh I had to go back and # some of the sources so the new people wouldn't have all those repo in their source list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 (edited) For all you Aussie subscribers ( ), the internode and aarnet mirrors are good. I use aarnet with Debian updates and usually max out my connection. Edited January 14, 2011 by sunrat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onederer Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 For updates in the repositories section, the hunt is on! Most of the time, the repos. that I had used the last time, will not be good this time. I have to go down the list, until I find one that works correctly. It's time consuming, but it must be done. Not much choice in the matter.I've not been able to find that application that automatically finds the latest best and fastest repos. site. That was quite a time saver. The machine did the work a lot faster than I could! Anyone know what it's called? Where do I find it? I used to be able to see it in older versions.Will it work if I select two sites in Synaptic? Anyone tried this? Will it get the data from the second one, if updates are missing from the first site? Or, does it simply create a conflict? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 (edited) Surely your gif should look more like this. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------< 25m Water level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edited January 14, 2011 by abarbarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longgone Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 Steel,,,,,Using the KDE version of PCLOS 2010 or 2010.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Surely your gif should look more like this. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------< 25m Water level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 :lol: It's actually stopped raining now, so we'll have bushfires soon and then drought. "We'll all be rooned!" Said Hanrahan - a poem that explains it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 (edited) I've not been able to find that application that automatically finds the latest best and fastest repos. site. That was quite a time saver. The machine did the work a lot faster than I could! Anyone know what it's called? Where do I find it? I used to be able to see it in older versions.The Repository Speed Test. It looks like it's been renamed on my system (I started with PCLOS KDE 2010.07, but I've kept it updated). Software Center > Update Package Sources List.Or, from the command line, check out:$ apt-sources-update -uapt-sources-update is a utility that will download the latest PCLinuxOS aptsources.list from the main ibiblio server, verify that theyhave been recently synced to the ibiblio server, and test all updated repositories for download speed.Once testing is completed the user will be given a speed rated list of repositories from which they can select a default repository to use for future software needs.It is meant to be run as a regular user, and will prompt for root permisions before making any changes to the apt sources.list file. This script also requires that zenity is installed so that GUI dialogs are properly displayed.Available console options to override default behavior include:. -a, -age=<time in days> Allowed repo age before FAIL -n, -number=<number of repos> Max number of official repos to keep (fastest) -s, -sources=<url of file> Location of official online sources.list -t, -timeout=<time in seconds> Time to start file download before FAIL -v, -verbose Verbose output for debugging -w, -write Prompt to write new sources.list to /etc/apt (root password) -u, -usage Display sample command line usage, help -h, -help Display this help messageExamples: apt-sources-update -timeout=3 -age=2 apt-sources-update -s http://myserver.org/sources.list apt-sources-update -t 2 -a 2 -n 8 -w They've changed it; the command used to be /usr/bin/apt-sources-update.sh, now it's /usr/bin/apt-sources-update. In my bash history from back when I first installed PCLOS 2010, I had: $ history 1 apt-sources-update.sh -u 2 apt-sources-update.sh -a 30 -t 5 -v 3 apt-sources-update.sh -a 30 -t 10 -v Which shows the commands I was using early on. But those don't work anymore unless you drop the ".sh" from the commands.Anyway, that's how to find the fastest repo in PCLOS 2010. Edited January 14, 2011 by saturnian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onederer Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 The Repository Speed Test. It looks like it's been renamed on my system (I started with PCLOS KDE 2010.07, but I've kept it updated). Software Center > Update Package Sources List.Or, from the command line, check out:$ apt-sources-update -uapt-sources-update is a utility that will download the latest PCLinuxOS aptsources.list from the main ibiblio server, verify that theyhave been recently synced to the ibiblio server, and test all updated repositories for download speed.Once testing is completed the user will be given a speed rated list of repositories from which they can select a default repository to use for future software needs.It is meant to be run as a regular user, and will prompt for root permisions before making any changes to the apt sources.list file. This script also requires that zenity is installed so that GUI dialogs are properly displayed.Available console options to override default behavior include:. -a, -age=<time in days> Allowed repo age before FAIL -n, -number=<number of repos> Max number of official repos to keep (fastest) -s, -sources=<url of file> Location of official online sources.list -t, -timeout=<time in seconds> Time to start file download before FAIL -v, -verbose Verbose output for debugging -w, -write Prompt to write new sources.list to /etc/apt (root password) -u, -usage Display sample command line usage, help -h, -help Display this help messageExamples: apt-sources-update -timeout=3 -age=2 apt-sources-update -s http://myserver.org/sources.list apt-sources-update -t 2 -a 2 -n 8 -w They've changed it; the command used to be /usr/bin/apt-sources-update.sh, now it's /usr/bin/apt-sources-update. In my bash history from back when I first installed PCLOS 2010, I had: $ history 1 apt-sources-update.sh -u 2 apt-sources-update.sh -a 30 -t 5 -v 3 apt-sources-update.sh -a 30 -t 10 -v Which shows the commands I was using early on. But those don't work anymore unless you drop the ".sh" from the commands.Anyway, that's how to find the fastest repo in PCLOS 2010. Thanks for the info. I updated my sources. I used to see this program in the menu section, but it is no longer there, and I had forgotten what it was called.Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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