Recently, every time I have run sudo apt-get update with 12.04 Precise there have been two 404's (note: I don't have the rep to post more than 2 links, so I've removed the 'http://' from the URLs below for the sake of the question):
Err archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]
Err archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe i386 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]
When I run the update manager GUI, it always notified me that my last check was stale by X number of days (at the time of writing, the last check was stale by 57 days.
So I commented out the last two entries in my /etc/apt/sources.list, which are:
## For legacy gcc
deb archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
…and the updates run without any problems now (although there wasn't really any noticeable negative effects before-hand, just that the errors were concerning me. The red exclamation in the toolbar and associated error message were concerning me too).
So my question is, am I missing out on something important and should I be replacing those hardy URLs I commented out with something else?
Best Answer
You can safely remove or comment out (put a
#in front of them) the hardy entries. Ubuntu Hardy is over four years old and not supported. So the archive isn't active anymore and thatswhy yu get an 404 error.