Download old versions of packages ubuntu

Are they available anywhere after EOF? I had to do it because I'm quite new and I don't know sed to make this work for karmic, Thanks, Your answer is still valid and correct. The sed command doesn't always work, as there are mirrors that are run by organizations outside of ubuntu. I'm not even sure that there are three dots for all of the domain names. There is an issue with this in upgrading from Vivid is no longer supported, however the dist is not on old-releases.

Show 7 more comments. What are errors The or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested. Why are we facing errors Ubuntu follows the approach of two different release cycles : Normal Ubuntu releases are supported for 9 months.

Run the following command to enter into root shell: sudo -i input your user password and press Enter. Run the following command to get out of root shell: logout You would find that the prompt switches back to indicate that your normal user is now logged in. Then run the following: sudo apt-get update There you go. Aditya Aditya Please follow the answers given at: How do I restore the default repositories? In newer Ubuntu versions, gksu is no longer installed by default.

And since the release would be EOL at this point, users won't be able to install it. It may be better to use nano or vim instead, with a normal sudo command. Dan, modified the answer, now we enter into root shell and then run the graphical program.

No need to use gksudo anymore. I want to keep this answer for the novice users like me and don't want to complicate matters with using terminal based editors, however easy or powerful they may be. Just make sure to not make any mistake. And if apt complaints about any error, then fix the mistake and re-run the apt command :- — Aditya. GUI Method Well, actually we will do this without to use any terminal. Just be sure that you have a working internet connection: And now you are free to download almost whatever you want.

I just did all this from installed Everything well good as described. Radu, your answer is flawless! Those images needs updating Braiam Those images are up to date.

If you will give a try to Ubuntu 9. Ahh, those screenshots bring back memories! We need comprehensive answers like this. Show 4 more comments. But none of the answers worked for me, even after doing everything that was suggested here I kept getting from sudo do-release-upgrade the annoying response: Checking for a new Ubuntu release No new release found And I had no success in running update-manager ; it kept throwing exceptions which I could not resolve.

Run it with sudo : sudo. Wait until it completes, approve if asked. I don't recall the exact details After the reboot the new version is running successfully, and all updates can be fetched normally. Kulfy It took me a while to find this post. Only using the referenced tarball I succeeded in getting the upgrade running from The approaches using the old-releases urls did not work.

I hope this helps other users getting into this problem. I'm glad you found it helpful! Seriously thanks for this, I just used these steps to upgrade My issue was different in that my install wasn't corrupted, but there was an error on do-release-upgrade which I was unable to find in the terminal. Following these steps popped up a dialog telling me "error authenticating some packages" which led me to askubuntu.

Was pulling my hair out, but its my own fault for not upgrading sooner. Unfortunately, not even this works for This still works well! I had to fix the I recommend that users who encounter problems ensure the upgrade was at some point supported-- one of these situations or that situation --and also consider combining this with the preparation other answers suggest, like enabling the old-releases server and upgrading all packages within the current release before starting.

Show 1 more comment. Thanks mikewhatever, but the result is the same when I try "apt-get install lm-sensors". Maybe there's another missing source: "Reading package lists Done Package lm-sensors is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package lm-sensors has no installation candidate" — Rorro.

Here are the debs: old-releases. I trust it, you've reloaded the sources list, right? This answer does not work Why does it have so many upvotes? Did anybody actually test it? I've tested it, but the real question is: Why are you still on Karmic? It's been out of support for years, and you should really move on to a more recent release. Stuart Cook Stuart Cook 2 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Alvar Thanks gajdipajti, I'm looking for it inside the package list, but cannot find the correct ".

My ubuntu already has "libsensors3", but all the packages ask me for the "libsensors4". I know the normal solution should be upgrade, but I cannot do it because the computer is dedicated to be used with a software that only runs on 9. Rorro: Which software only runs on Ubuntu 9.

Upgrade a very old Ubuntu If your Ubuntu Kubuntu , Xubuntu , Mythbuntu , whatever-buntu is really old, you will have to take three steps to upgrade to an up-to-date version: Hack the package updater APT to upgrade your system to the latest available in the old-releases repository including the release upgrade manager.

Hack the release upgrade manager to make it agree to upgrade to the next officially unsupported release. Do the actual release upgrade and repeat. Dist: artful Name: Artful Aardvark Version: Redo it until your system is up to date. When you are stuck to an old release The process described above worked for me to upgrade to an unsupported release, and then to the last LTS release and I couldn't upgrade anymore.

I guess I will have to search for another hosting solution in the near future. Suggested by j -at- bootlab -dot- org. Finally, I migrated to the "new" layout. Comments and Patches about the remaining quirks welcome. Suggestions welcome. I've actually no idea whom to ask about this since I don't seem to be able to find out on the Ubuntu web site who is ftp-master in Ubuntu? You can now also browse the packages from hoary-backports I have begun to work on integrating the current Ubuntu web design with my pages.

There are still some issues to work out but as a teaser I already converted the front page. Feel free to mail me with comments on how I could use the new layout better. Please report all errors you find with the new breezy pages. The changelog extraction script is still running so there are still some more broken links. Please report all other problems you might encounter. The necessary setup is done on both my side and on the side of the ubuntu people but I will use the occasion for some configuration clean-up and a full rebuild.

Also, the Portuguese LoCoTeam hmm, Ubuntu teams have all very l33t names ; asked me how to translate the pages. This will ensure that at least the constant strings on all the pages are translated Some of the strings in these file are only needed on packages. Unless this is fully revived or another similar project is created there is little I can do on this front.

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