Hi,
I have a very old laptop Toshiba Satellite M305-S4848, from 2010. I used to run Ubuntu 14.04 on it until a few years ago. Now, I’m trying to use it again. Everything is fine, except for the fact it can’t update its Ubuntu 14.04 (nor the Firefox). It tells me to check the internet connection, but everything else is fine. I’m even typing this from it right now.
Please, how should I proceed to solve this?
Thanks in advance.
This looks like a technical support request.
This site is for the co-ordination of the Ubuntu project(s), and other non-support matters. For Ubuntu Support options, please have a look at https://community.ubuntu.com/t/finding-help/709
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is EOL (end-of-life) thus isn’t supported on some support sites, and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM is in extended support and is supported by Canonical via Ubuntu Advantage. Refer https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades
I know you’ve found support sites, as I’ve seen this request elsewhere too
@jairoamaral Are you sure you are connected to the Internet? If so, you can try the following:
old-releases.ubuntu.com
You can replace http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu and http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu with http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu in /etc/apt/sources.list.
sed command:
sudo sed -i -re 's/([a-z]{2}\.)?archive.ubuntu.com|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
You can they try updating to the latest version using:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
sudo do-release-upgrade
Don’t do this. @jairoamaral said they’re on 14.04 LTS which is still a supported release and has not moved to old-releases.
@popey Hmm, I thought Trusty had been moved to old-releases.ubuntu.com. Just checked archive.ubuntu.com and looks like that’s not the case.
@jairoamaral As @popey pointed out, please don’t do it. Could you tell me the commands you ran to upgrade Ubuntu?
Closing.