changing it to a different server worked for me!
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Title:
Upgrade 10.04 - 10.10 failed due to the essential package 'ubuntu-
minimal' can not be
I've ran across this issue using local repos with non-standard ports.
ie:
deb http://192.168.2.2:/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse
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Upgrade 10.04 - 10.10 failed due to the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal'
can not be found anymore ((in|gb).archive.ubuntu.com releated?)
I too ran into this issue. I worked around it by reading comments from
other users on this page.
We use a proxy script at our workplace. I have specified the script URL
in the Automatic proxy configuration setting of
[System-Preferences-Network Preferences]. I extracted the HTTP proxy
details
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
** Summary changed:
- Upgrade 10.04 - 10.10 failed due to the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal'
can not be found anymore
+ Upgrade 10.04 - 10.10
Hi Michael,
Changing the mirror in sources.list worked for me. I was able to
successfully upgrade it.
Thanks for your help!
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Upgrade 10.04 - 10.10 failed due to the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal'
can not be found anymore (in.archive.ubuntu.com releated?)
I'm in the UK, and have this problem - should I try another mirror?
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Dianne: That's what seems to have fixed it for me; Go to System
-Administration-Software Sources (or System-Administration-Update
Manager-Settings) On the first tab, Software Sources (in 10.10) look
at the list Download from: hit other, then try hitting the Select Best
Server, which I think pings
@Dianne, are you using gb.archive.ubuntu.com ?
** Summary changed:
- Upgrade 10.04 - 10.10 failed due to the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal'
can not be found anymore (in.archive.ubuntu.com releated?)
+ Upgrade 10.04 - 10.10 failed due to the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal'
can not be
Synaptic shows server from United Kingdom
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Changing to another server has fixed it for me - thanks! I need my
laptop updated to run a demo on Saturday. :)
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all you need to do is change the server. it worked for me ^_^ already
upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 just now.
go to System Administration Update Manager Settings Ubuntu
Software (tab) Download from :
then change it to Others. it will ping for the nearest and fastest server
near you. or you
:This works for the user from India:
Changing the software sources of update-manager to choose best server solves
the issue.
Go to System - Administration - Update Manager - Settings - Ubuntu
Software (First Tab) - Download from :
Select Others and Click Select Best Server- Choose server.
Same problem for me - I've attached my output from $ head
/var/lib/apt/lists/*main*Package*
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** Attachment added: bug631426.txt
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/631426/+attachment/1681632/+files/bug631426.txt
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Same for me, 10.04 to 10.10, here is my dist-upgrade contents
After your package information was updated the essential package
'ubuntu-minimal' can not be found anymore.
This indicates a serious error, please report this bug against the
'update-manager' package and include the files in
This works for me now. Wondering if it is related to the fix reported
in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/657700
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Jon,
I think my bug is a dupe of this one. I noticed that the upgrading info
/ release notes warned about release candidate status prior to
installation failing, but they presented mature documentation when
installation proceeded (which it is doing now). I wonder whether some
of the mirrors are
Thanks for your inputs Michael. I have attached the o/p you requested.
I am trying to upgrade my home PC and I am pretty sure that I have not
enabled any proxy or firewall here in my home network (at least
knowingly).
Please let me know if you need any further info.
** Attachment added: Output
Hello Vishal,
could you please try to change the mirror in your sources.list from
http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
to http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu (e.g. via System/Administration/Software
sources)
and see if that helps?
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Upgrade 10.04 - 10.10 failed due to the essential package
Thanks for your bugreport.
Could you please run (in a terminal):
$ head /var/lib/apt/lists/*main*Package*
and attach the output here? I suspect there is something that prevented the
correct download of the packages files in your network connection (a provider,
a proxy, a pay-wall, etc).
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Sorry, the installation is already whiped out. But I am pretty sure that it
is a proxy-issue. Since when I moved the laptop to my home (no proxy) the
update ran without any issues... I think I posted it somewhere on the
bugreport that I thought the module which does upgrade-web-connections can
not
+Affects me.
Additional note: I'm using UNR.
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Affects me as well. Attached the dist-upgrade logs.
** Attachment added: Attaching the logs as requested
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/631426/+attachment/1666900/+files/dist-upgrade.tar.gz
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Upgrade 10.04 - 10.10 failed due to the essential package
Same message. Program asked me to send this file: see attachment
** Attachment added: content of /var/log/dist-upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/631426/+attachment/1630829/+files/dist-upgrade.zip
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Upgrade 10.04 - 10.10 failed due to the essential
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: update-manager
During upgrade I've got the message:
Invalid package information
After your package information was updated the essential package
'ubuntu-minimal' can not be found anymore.
This indicates a serious error, please
** Attachment added: main.log
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/631426/+attachment/1549266/+files/main.log
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