Hi,
(so I cannot update the system...and so can't upgrade to 20.10)
Issues with the sources it seems : software updater tells me : "Failed to download repository information".
Of course my internet connection works fine.
I've wandered the internet ans the forums, tried to fix the sources...not working.
Any idea ?
Thks.
This is very similar to this : Download issues when updating RPI 3
But there is no satisfying answer...
Welcome to Ubuntu MATE community!
Please open terminal and execute the below command
sudo apt-get update
and then share its output in reply.
Please note that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is long term-supported release, it is now supported.
So you should replace all old-releases.ubuntu.com and fr.old-releases.ubuntu.com to archive.ubuntu.com.
Programmatically this maybe done by
sudo sed -i "s/fr.old-releases/archive/g" /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
sudo sed -i "s/old-releases/archive/g" /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
and then rerun
sudo apt-get update
Oh.
That was from a previous try...
I did what you proposed, same result.
It seems the link like this on are unreachable :
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-updates/main/binary-arm64/Packages
Understood, so we need to change archive to ports with
sudo sed -i "s/archive.ubuntu/ports.ubuntu/g" /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
and then run
sudo apt-get update
I re-created the sources.list, using what is proposed at the end of that page (using mirrors):
Sudo apt update does download some info BUT then no upgrades fro mthe terminal and the tool "solftware updated" does return an error message.
Also I tried to upgrade to 20.10 from the terminal with: sudo do-release-upgrade -d
But it says: Upgrades to the development release are only available from the latest supported release.