Hello!
Today when using apt source to grab a tarball from cli, I was receiving some errors, I was not paying attention, then I realized it was 404 errors.
Going to the main repo at archive.ubuntu.com I saw that there are no more tarballs anywhere?
I’ve looked and seems like as the mirrors are more and more getting in sync with this removal.
Here’s an example:
https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/ubuntu/pool/main/c/casper/
https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/casper/
$ apt source linux
Reading package lists... Done
NOTICE: 'linux' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at:
git://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/noble
Please use:
git clone git://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/noble
to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
Need to get 235 MB of source archives.
Err:1 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main linux 6.8.0-59.61 (dsc)
404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.82 80]
Err:2 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main linux 6.8.0-59.61 (tar)
404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.82 80]
Err:3 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main linux 6.8.0-59.61 (diff)
404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.82 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux_6.8.0-59.61.dsc 404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.82 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux_6.8.0.orig.tar.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.82 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux_6.8.0-59.61.diff.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.82 80]
E: Failed to fetch some archives.
$ apt source casper
Reading package lists... Done
NOTICE: 'casper' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at:
https://git.launchpad.net/casper
Please use:
git clone https://git.launchpad.net/casper
to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
Need to get 109 kB of source archives.
Err:1 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main casper 1.498 (dsc)
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.81 80]
Err:2 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main casper 1.498 (tar)
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.81 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/casper/casper_1.498.dsc 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.81 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/casper/casper_1.498.tar.xz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.81 80]
E: Failed to fetch some archives.
My question is:
Do you not if this is a change in policy or maybe someone had a bad day at work, and hopefully they’ll be back later?
