On 22/03/2019 16:43, Roby wrote:
> On 22/03/2019 The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 22/03/2019 13:46, Roby wrote:
>>  > Err http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/main armhf Packages
>>   404  Not Found [IP: 46.235.227.11 80]
>>
>> 
>>
>> 404 error is not "I cannot see the server", but "the server cannot
>> find the file!"
>>
>>
>> So it is NOTHING to do with your network connection!
>>
>> Sorry that was a red herring.
>>
>> I have seen this occasionally when distros are being updated.
>>
>> Hmm.. Jessie was last updated on the 21st..
>>
>> y'know I BET that somehow you are using a proxy server and it has
>> cached an incomplete and old version of what is on that server.
>>
>> One possible way - I'd ask others to comment - to circumvent that is
>> to use https instead of http.
>>
>> So modify the remote sources.list to use https.
>>
>> proxy servers usually pass that straight through.
>>
>> You will get errors from:
>>
>>
>>   https://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch InRelease
>>    Failed to connect to raspbian.raspberrypi.org port 443: Connection
>> refused
>>
>> but my pi DID connect to archive.raspberrypi.org
>>
>> So once its done that, go back to the old sources.list and try and
>> install whatever you need.
>>
>> Its bloody hard to circumvent mobile phone ISP proxy servers. Pain in
>> the arse.
> I modified /etc/apt/sources.list by entering
> 'deb https://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib
> non-free rpi'
> but the result of 'sudo apt-get update' is this:
> E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
> N: Is the package apt-transport-https installed?
> Also tried
> 'sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https'
> but nothing has changed
> Removed https from sources.list nothing has changed
> Also done the reboot
> :-?
>
sigh. I am on stretch and it worked by default...:-(



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