Public bug reported: When both Medibuntu and 3rd Party (archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/partner) repositories are present in sources.list files, apt-get fails. Apt-get update is successful if Medibuntu is present by itself, or archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/partner is present by itself, but not if they are both present together.
Probably not a Medibuntu bug, but related to how sources.list is parsed? Caused me a great deal of confusion, until I just included the repository for the specific package that I wanted and switched between repos as necessary. Output from "apt-get update" follows with both repositories present in sources.list ... Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org lucid Release.gpg Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org/ lucid/free Translation-en_US Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org/ lucid/non-free Translation-en_US Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org lucid Release Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org lucid/free Packages Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org lucid/non-free Packages Err http://archive.canonical.com lucid Release.gpg Something wicked happened resolving 'archive.canonical.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) Ign http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ lucid/partner Translation-en_US Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid Release Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid/partner Packages W: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/Release.gpg Something wicked happened resolving 'archive.canonical.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ** Affects: medibuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Medibuntu Packaging Team, which is the registrant for Medibuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692060 Title: apt-get update error for Lucid _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~medibuntu-maintainers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~medibuntu-maintainers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

