Issue installing software, mirrors down?

Trying to install certain software (ex GCC and curl) results in a 404 error for me. I’m on Byzantium, and everything is up to date in the PureOS store. I also ran sudo apt update.

I’ve seen this on other debian distros, but usually when the major OS version is out of date, or I haven’t run an apt update. Is this a known problem?

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I just did sudo apt install curl and it worked for me.

I note Preparing to unpack .../curl_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u14_arm64.deb ... so somehow you are attempting to fetch an older version.

I would do the update again and then do the install again.

I don’t know but I wonder whether it is possible to make repository changes in an atomic fashion i.e. perhaps not and you may have accessed the repo just when changes were being made.

PS Assuming that you are happily running a higher kernel version than the one that it wants you to autoremove, you should do so - in order to free up the disk space.

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Interesting. For some reason mine continues to try to fetch deb11u11, not u14. I’ve run update several times, including after your post with no luck.

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This is my sources.list btw

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Have you rebooted since the upgrade? Although, I do notice your kernel is older…

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Reboot didn’t help, my kernel is 6.6.0-1-librem5. This is the same install that either came with the phone or I flashed many years ago, and I haven’t turned it on and updated very often since. Something could have gone screwy.

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Exactly the same as mine.

As you basically aren’t using it, perhaps it is time for a reflash.

PS It is possible to do a screenshot rather than photographing the phone - or of course in this case you can just cut and paste text from a shell session.

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The installed PureOS release could be Amber, so confirm with this command:

lsb_release -a
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