On 26/03/2019 19:14, I R A Darth Aggie wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:53:23 +0000,
> The Natural Philosopher , in
>  wrote:
>>   On 25/03/2019 19:26, I R A Darth Aggie wrote:
>>> Oh, and usually when you encounter a 404 error in debian-style
>>> repository, it is because your package list is out of sync with the
>>> remote provider. apt-get update should cure that issue.
>>
>>   Its is apt-get update that is throwing the errors
>
> I think your assessment that some sort of ISP caching is a good one,
> since apt-get update is simply asking for the Packages file from
>
> http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-armhf/
>
> which we all know exists.
>
> The OP might want to try from the pi account
>
> wget \
> http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-armhf/Packages
>
> and see what happens, but I expect another 404. But, I just read that
> https is not cachable, so maybe
>
> wget \
>
https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-armhf/Packages
>
> might be just the trick to see if there is some caching going on.
>

I actually suggested he do that, but not all packages are accessible via
https..



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