My architecture is "powerpc" (Apple G3 - G4 and G5 machines are big-endian
machines). Xenial supports both "powerpc" and "ppc64el" but Bionic only
supports "ppc64el" (little-endian). So, I am afraid that there is no solution
for my problem: Xenial is the last Ubuntu release with support for
I resolved this problem by modifying my /etc/apt/sources.list to remove
the mirror method, and point directly to ubuntu sources. I.e. my old
sources.list contained lines like this:
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt xenial main restricted
Which I modified to this:
deb
This bug has been static for many years, has anyone found a workaround
or fix?
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Title:
upgrade to ubuntu-18.04: 'ubuntu-minimal' not found
To
Confirmed also for 16.04->18.04 on multiple machines. Original 16.04
installs were mythbuntu, if that helps.
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upgrade to ubuntu-18.04:
Confirmed for upgrading 18.04.5 LTS to 20.04 LTS
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Confirmed affecting me upgrating from 18.04.5 LTS to 20.04.1 LTS
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Title:
upgrade to ubuntu-18.04: 'ubuntu-minimal' not found
To manage
Still affecting me upgrating from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS
After updating your package information, the essential package
'ubuntu-minimal' could not be located. This may be because you have
no official mirrors listed in your software sources, or because of
excessive load on the mirror you are
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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