When I try to run sudo apt-get update, I get a huge amount of 404 errors for the same IP address, listed above.
Any ideas as to what I can do?
Just a cursory look and I wonder, why should there be ‘I386’ repos on Raspberry Pi?
That’s what I noticed as well. It doesn’t make much sense, that’s for sure.
Have you tried changing repositories?
From the Control Center open Software & Updates and in the Ubuntu Software tab select a new repository from the drop down menu.
Disclaimer:
I don't currently have UM 16.04 installed on my Pi to verify this is the same as the desktop version, but I'm assuming that it would be.
Is there anyway I could do that through terminal? I don’t have access to a screen an have to connect through SSH from my laptop
Yes, by editing your sources.list.
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Please look at the following link. It’s seems to address the problem you are having.
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GNU nano 2.5.3 File: sources.list Modified
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ xenial-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ xenial-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse
That’s my sources.list file. I don’t see anything wrong, but I don’t have a very good eye for small issues.
Looking at your pastebin, the cause of the errors is that binary-i386/Packages does not exist on http://ports.ubuntu.com. Further if it did exist, it has not part in the armhf architecture of your raspberrypi.
E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/xenial/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.150 80]
I see nothing out of the ordinary in your sources.list file.
Could this possibly be a fault on the server side?
If you look at http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/xenial/Release
Line 7 reads
Architectures: amd64 arm64 armhf i386 powerpc ppc64el s390x
And there are numerous references to binary-i386/Packages beginning with line 39
6ee30a76a53b6364cd86707022510e62 7187961 main/binary-i386/Packages
When clearly /binary-i386/Packages does not exist on http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/xenial/main
But if this is a server side issue, I am curious as to why everyone is not having this same problem.
I would suggest messaging @Wimpy or @lah7 for help on this issue. They would understand the server side of things much better than I do.
How do I message one of them?
Nevermind, I had to unlock it first