the system is down

Posted: 21st April 2010 by leftyfb in linux, technology, ubuntu
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In this case, it’s medibuntu. Or more specifically, their Ubuntu repository. As far as I can tell it’s been down for about a week now and was also down a while back for some time. For anyone who needs to utilize this pretty important resource, there seems to be mirrors out there which I wasn’t aware of. Enter Andrew’s blog post on webupd9.org:

Firstly you’ll have to find out where your Medibuntu repo is located. Run this in a terminal:
ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

If the file exists, press ALT + F2 and enter:
gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

If running the above command lists the medibuntu.list as not found (“ls: cannot access /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list: No such file or directory”), then do the following:
Press ALT + F2 and enter:
gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then for both cases, search for the lines which point to the main Medibuntu repository, which should look something like this:
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ lucid free non-free
deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ lucid free non-free

Of course, if you’re not using Lucid, it’s going to say “karmic” or “jaunty”, etc.
Replace these 2 lines with any of these 3 mirrors:
Mirror 1:
deb http://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free

Mirror 2:
deb http://mirror.oscc.org.my/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free
deb-src http://mirror.oscc.org.my/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free

Mirror 3:
deb ftp://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free

If you’re not using Lucid, replace “lucid” in the above lines with “karmic”, “jaunty” or whatever Ubuntu version you’re using.
  • http://www.englishclass.com.tw/toeic/ TOEIC

    Insightful read. I have just bookmarked this at stumbleupon. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

  • TGMann

    IT was back last night, ~9pm BST

  • IcyJ

    Your title reminds of Strong Bad's email “Techno”… “The system is down.. the system is down.. do do do”

    • http://leftyfb.com/ leftyfb

      That's exactly where I got it from .. hands down my favorite episode

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  • derande

    thanks! i've been wondering what's going on for the past 2 days.

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  • http://popey.com/ Alan Pope

    Thanks for posting this. I have a couple of friends who needed access to medibuntu recently. Have passed this info on.

  • Chad

    There seems to be a DSN problem making the repo inaccessible.

    Add this to your etc/hosts file:

    88.191.101.8 packages.medibuntu.org

    I was able to install medibuntu packages fine after making this change. Rumors are this will be fixed tomorrow.

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