Many thanks Guitaraholic, that has fixed it. Updating without any problems now.

Were there a mess of progs removed from the repo list? I now have a large number of (auto removable) and (local or obsolete) programs installed now in Synaptic Some of them I'm positive are not removable (netbook-dkms!!) and some I'm confused as to why they're not in the repo at all anymore (conky)...

oooh cos netbook-dkms not linked to the new eeepc-tray.

ill track a copy and put it in - ill also throw conky in there

the repo had to be repopulated due to the server issues

Great, thanks. I'll have to track down the chain for the rest (there's a mess of OOO dependencies it claims it doesn't need any more and I'm pretty sure it's wrong...). I haven't changed my sources or anything, so I'm not sure what's going on yet.

hmmm we didnt have any open office files on the repo so it maybe an update for Ooo negates the use of them?

That's what I would have said too, but it includes openoffice.org-base, -calc, -common, -impress... You see where I'm going with this

The list is odd in general, as it includes eeeconfigure, eee-acpi-utilities, several libxcb packages, a bunch of ooo, sqlite3, and more. For now I'm just not uninstalling any of those things, but eventually I'd like to have my install properly synced.

Sounds like a metapackage was deleted that depended on all of the binaries in your list.

One thing you can do to remove them from being orphaned would be to install each one so aptitude / debian package manager registers that they aren't orphan. It won't reinstall them, it will just mark them as required.

Thanks Fewt, but apparently it's more complicated than that. I have the OOO repo in my list, but there's no external OOO packages avialable from it! I can't mark for installation because there's no pacakge there.

From what one source I found says (http://www.webupd8.org/2009/05/install- ... aunty.html), openoffice-pkgs has stopped carrying the releases. Looks like you have to add another repo to get it working again.

Still doesn't explain all the OTHER stuff that's now local only, but getting closer...

Greetings,

I have a 4G 701 surf, running 3.0 basic. I have tried both fixes:

1)
System --> Administration --> Software Sources --> Third-Party Software.
Scroll down to near the bottom of the list and you will find the link for the eeebuntu repository. Click in the box to remove the tick. Close.
Then if you run Synaptic or Update Manager it should go in, check the lists and give you any updates that are found.

(no luck)

And

2)
wget -q http://eeebuntu.org/Eeebuntu.key | sudo apt-key add Eeebuntu.key

(terminal said OK, but still have:

Failed to fetch http://www.statux.org/ubuntu/dists/jaun ... 6/Packages 404 Not Found
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.)

Tried both solutions, singly and in all combinations.

Not sure what to do? Still cannot update my system.

Thanks!

Statux repo is closed. Remove it, or ignore it.

?? strange. What happens when you click the red link that you quoted up above in your web browser ??

Sorry trip, if you were replying to my old post I forgot to put sudo in first. It worked after that.

wget http://eeebuntu.org/Eeebuntu.key
--2010-11-04 01:30:58-- http://eeebuntu.org/Eeebuntu.key
Resolving eeebuntu.org... 77.68.57.140
Connecting to eeebuntu.org|77.68.57.140|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2010-11-04 01:30:59 ERROR 404: Not Found.