On Fri, 15 Apr 2016, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I just had a catastrophic crash which necessitated reinstalling > Debian. I had been running v-7.2,but decided to upgrade to v-7.10 > with a complete install. > > Now when I update the repositories, regardless of the tool, Synaptic > or Aptitude, I get the following errors: > > W: Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/main/source/Sources: > 404 Not Found [IP: 2610:148:1f10:3::89 80] > W: Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/contrib/source/Sources: > 404 Not Found [IP: 2610:148:1f10:3::89 80] > W: Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/non-free/source/Sources: > > 404 Not Found [IP: 2610:148:1f10:3::89 80] > E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or > old ones used instead. > E: Couldn't rebuild package cache > > I do not get these errors if I comment out the deb-src lines in the > sources.list. > > Now, I know that it has to be a problem with the new install as I > have installed v-7.10 in a VMware Workstation 12 Player on my laptop > as a test bed and do not get any errors. > > I would greatly appreciate help resolving this issue,. > > Thanks in advance.
In /etc/apt/sources.list, substiute ftp.us.debian.org for all occurences of http.us.debian.org That's the way the installer set it up on my Wheezy 7.10. B