Ubuntu installation: failed to fetch packages

graph-tool
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Installing python-3-graph-tool inside this docker file following the Debian/Ubuntu installation instructions.

Met with the following error during the docker build, as of 2023-03-22T00:00:00Z:

#6 35.56 Err:7 http://downloads.skewed.de/apt bionic/main amd64 Packages
#6 35.56   404  Not Found [IP: 49.12.93.194 80]
#6 35.57 Ign:8 http://downloads.skewed.de/apt bionic/main all Packages
#6 35.84 Reading package lists...
#6 37.57 E: Failed to fetch http://downloads.skewed.de/apt/dists/bionic/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 49.12.93.194 80]
#6 37.57 E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Upon checking, I noticed the repo at https://downloads.skewed.de/apt/dists/bionic/ is in fact empty.

Tried:

  • Double checking on another PC and with creator of original repo to confirm the issue.
  • Changing http://downloads to https://downloads as in the installation instructions, no effect.
  • Using another Ubuntu distribution (kinetic instead of bionic) for which the repo at https://downloads.skewed.de/apt/dists/kinetic/ is non empty, resulted in successful graph tool install.
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This has now been fixed.

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Hi @tiago
We have just come across a similar issue. We use the buster distro and currently the buster folder has recently gone empty causing our builds to fail. See Index of /apt/dists/buster

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I was about to post we’re experiencing this issue as well since last week but it looks like it has been fixed already for buster!

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I’ve hunted down the cause of the problem and fixed it. This should be working now for all repositories.