No longer possible to download packages for ubuntu vivid

[mschaaf]

Installing tools from the Ubuntu repos seems no longer possible.
I get the following error message on "apt update"

W: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/vivid-updates/main/binary-armhf/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.150 80]

Is there an updated Parabuntu?
Or is it possible to upgrade the image myself?

[mgrecki]

It seems that vivid version of Ubuntu is no longer supported. If the parabuntu maintainer does not prepare new version it will stay like that. I have made dirty hack by edit /etc/sources.list file exchanging "vivid" to "xenial". At least for my case it works and I could install few packages I need (e.g. mc, gnuplot). There were no essential errors during update and installation. Maybe that helps you as well?

[diveyez]

I cant even get into the ssh for my board.

[diveyez]

login as: parallella
parallella@192.168.56.1's password:
Access denied
parallella@192.168.56.1's password:
(LOCAL ETH DIRECTLY PLUGGED INTO LAPTOP ONLY)

[mgrecki]

can you connect using serial? Anyway, it is almost impossible to not be able to login into standard distribution using standard account and password... check whether you really boot the right image and connect to the right network node, however looking to ssh output you did well.... You can also try to mount the sd card in your laptop directly and remove parallella password from /etc/shadow and then try to log in again.

[tslpre]

I have done the upgrade from "vivid" to "xenial" and had my system working fine. Then I have upgraded to "bionic" two days ago and it worked fine as well. No issues found during the process. Next step should be to update the kernel...

[marcofranchimoretti]

Welcome at all, i think this posts can help.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/428698/are-there-alternative-repositories-to-ports-ubuntu-com-for-arm
^_^

[agent001]

Comment out all existing release links and add below in the file /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-ports/ vivid main universe
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-ports/ vivid main universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-ports/ vivid-security main universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid main restricted
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates main restricted
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid universe
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates universe
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-backports main restricted universe multiverse

[tslpre]

After almost four months of Parallella working on Bionic, I can confirm that the upgrade path worked perfectly... what @agent001 mentioned in the previous post (about using the "old-releases.ubuntu.com") is important as it will allow the update from an unsupported version to another unsupported one.

[njpacoma]

tslpre, would you be willing to provide guidance regarding how you upgraded the Parallella to bionic? I would like to do that myself. Do you have the ability to still program for the Epiphany?

[tslpre]

@njpacoma being the current version (Vivid) not supported anymore, you need to update the sources.list manually so you can update to xenial (that is a LTS) and then from there you can update to Bionic (that is the following LTS).
Have a look at the answer at: https://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-from-an-old-unsupported-release

That's basically what you should do :)

Let me know if you need more details.

[njpacoma]

Thanks, tslpre, I managed to upgrade to Bionic. There were a bunch of pitfalls along the way and I am not sure I could easily reproduce the steps without working through the process again and working out how I got around those pitfalls. I tried a couple of the parallella examples and they seem to still work. Appreciate the pointer.

[agent001]

I upgraded to Bionic after

1. partition size increase using https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-resize-ext4-root-partition-live-without-umount
2. From vivid => wily, wily=> xenial following this https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-18-04-lts-bionic-beaver#h9-how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-the-debian-way
3. xenial => bionic using standard do-release-upgrade

The source list produced by https://repogen.simplylinux.ch/generate.php was useful.
And I had to manually update the vivid source list
a) sudo sed -i 's/vivid/xenial/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
b) for i in find /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ -type f | xargs grep vivid -l;do sudo sed -i 's/vivid/xenial/g' $i;done

[boneoh]

Is there an image file that I can download?

I'm far from a linux guru, this is way out of my pay grade.

[njpacoma]

boneoh, do you have the desktop or the server? do you have more than one?

I am not sure that the kernel after the upgrade is the latest Ubuntu kernel or if it has been kept back because it was a custom build. The uname command shows

Linux parallella-1 4.6.0+ #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 7 13:27:40 CET 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

This is what is in the /etc/os-release file

NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

If you are looking for the latest and greatest kernel, this won't give it to you. I upgraded because some of the software I wanted to install was no longer available.

[boneoh]

Hi, Ted! Thank you very much for taking the time to help me. Here is the uname output: Linux parallella 4.6.0+ #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 7 13:27:40 CET 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux Here NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="15.04 (Vivid Vervet)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 15.04" VERSION_ID="15.04" HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" So it looks like my output matches your examples. Please forgive my ignorance. I’m a computer guy, but not much exposure to linux. Mostly as a user for Raspberry Pi. I’m looking at Parallella as a possible fit for an embedded processor. I’d like to use the Parallella for video image processing. If you have the time, would you mind answering a couple of questions? Sudo apt-get update, upgrade, etc. seem to fail because of being so out of date. Is the correct approach to install the latest parabuntu? I’m clueless as to what to try next. I am guessing that the Parallella requires a customized version of linux in order to support the hardware? I would really like to get this up and going, it seems like such an awesome device. I ran a bunch of the examples, this seems like a good solution for my needs. Thanks again for your help! Regards, Pete

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