Unofficial Backports Shut DOWN

[jdong]

After a quick exchange with fellow Ubuntu developers, we've decided to completely take down unoffial hoary-backports (i.e. Mirrormax, etc)

Please remove it from your /etc/apt/sources.list, and replace it with Official Backports (deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main restricted universe multiverse).



NOTE: hoary-backports-staging is still up since we have no other beta testing channels. All packages in there are BETA quality; don't cry to Ubuntu developers if something breaks, cry here.

[matthew]

Thanks for the heads up!

[denisesballs]

What about the hoary-extras?

[jdong]

What about the hoary-extras?

Extras is unaffected by this announcements -- backports only.

[John.Michael.Kane]

Official Backports are listed where on the site you posted.. also the only things listed seem to be zipfiles

[matthew]

Official Backports are listed where on the site you posted.. also the only things listed seem to be zipfiles

In your sources.list, remove any previous backports repos. In their place put the line:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main restricted universe multiverse

Then use Synaptic normally.

[John.Michael.Kane]

Thanks

[urbandryad]

I don't know how to do this? Does this pertain to me? o.o

[jdong]

I don't know how to do this? Does this pertain to me? o.o

ALT+F2, then "gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list". Add:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main restricted universe multiverse

and remove

deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-backports main restricted universe multiverse

[urbandryad]

okay, wasn't really clear. I don't have the internet at home, where my Linux computer is. So is this a think where it automatically updates with the internet? I don't understand. I'm a newbie.