apt-get update for ubuntu 10.04

Question

I know that Ubuntu 10.04 is no longer supported.

But I am still using it, becuase I use virtual machine (VirtualBox), and on previous trials to use any more updated Ubuntu version was too heavy, and slow, in my machine.

Now, when I try doing:

apt-get update 

I receive a bunch of errors:

...
Ign http://il.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Ign http://il.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources
Err http://il.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
  404  Not Found
Err http://il.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
  404  Not Found
...
Err http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.162 80]
...
W: Failed to fetch     http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404  Not Found

I am sure I used to do that in the past without any issues.

Is it because Ubuntu 10.04 was removed from these repositories, or is it some other issue?

Solution

It's really trivial to verify, just browse to http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ (you can also drop theil from the front) and check the results.

The site is responding, you get a connection, but there is no lucid among the directories corresponding to Ubuntu releases.

Conclusion: the packages were removed.

Comments

[Admin]

if you not it is end of life ... why bother asking?

[Admin]

deleted my answer because I misread the question

[Admin]

I just had this problem in an old VM I've inherited. I added the old-releases.ubuntu.com URLs as seen at github.com/docker-library/official-images/issues/1902, to /etc/apt/sources.list. This was enough to update/install new packages.

[Admin]

I tried this but still apt-get update or upgrade is not working. I am using ubuntu 10

[Admin]

worked relatively well for me, i had to replace us.archive with old-releases, and also 'security.ubuntu.com' with 'old-release.ubuntu.com'