On 04/04/2019 21:12, Roby wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher scriveva il 04/04/2019 :
>> On 04/04/2019 17:17, Roby wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>> On 04/04/2019 08:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Remember you can also push .deb packages to the remote site using sftp
>>>>>
>>>>> And manually install them.
>>>>>
>>>>> You do not *have* to use apt-get on the remote machine.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Oh. One thing that you may or may not have tried..
>>>>
>>>> IF there is a bad cache in your upstream ISPs proixies, you may be
>>>> able to defeat that by changing package *sources* - are ther any pi
>>>> mirrors in other countries you could try?
>>>>
>>>> https://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianMirrors
>>>>
>>>> there are!
>>>>
>>>> I'd try UK kent university. Genrally well maintained
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> find some that work on your local machine - edit sources.list and
>>>> just do apt-get update - and then apply them to the remote machine.
>>>
>>> I took your advice
>>> I modified /etc/apt/sources.list adding in the head
>>> 'deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/archive.raspbian.org/raspbian'
>>
>> This is mine.
>>
>> $ more /etc/apt/sources.list
>>
>>
>> deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ stretch main contrib
>> non-free rpi
>>
>>
>> Copy that, substituting the site and the correct version name.
>
> I have tried but still 404 errors
> I give up ... I don't know what to do anymore :'(
>

WEll deliberately or not, I think you are lying.
Take the SD card out of the offending PI and insert one that works from
your local site.,

See if the problem is the site, or the SD card software



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