sudo apt-get update fail on Ubuntu 17.04

Question

While running the sudo apt-get update on ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus, I am getting the following error. I have posted on the error lines. I wanted to install python libraries like matplotlib and tkinter which failed to installed because above command wasn't running succesfully. Please suggest me what to do.

Err:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1560:8001::14 80]
Err:25 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/main i386 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
Err:81 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
Err:113 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
Reading package lists... Done
W: The repository 'http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
W: The repository 'http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
W: The repository 'http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
W: The repository 'http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1560:8001::14 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty-backports/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Solution 1

17.04 isn't getting further support from Ubuntu. So, the solution that worked for me was to upgrade it to 17.10 as none other solutions helped.

Solution 2

you can solve it by: just replace us.archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com in /etc/apt/sources.list with old-releases.ubuntu.com and then you'll be able to finish updating.

refer to source 1 and ubuntu forum

it work for me

Solution 3

In my case:

sed -e 's/archive.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list 
sed -e 's/security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list 

Solution 4

In my case, I was able to download some of the packages by doing the following:

I had to replace "us.archive.ubuntu.com" and "security.ubuntu.com" in /etc/apt/sources.list WITH "old-releases.ubuntu.com" and then I was able to finish downloading some of the packages, like Ayush Kumar said.

For the other updates that were listed by my Hosting company, Linode, I used the following:

I had to use the --allow-unauthenticated flag with sudo apt-get update.

sudo apt-get update --allow-unauthenticated

Then I was able to finish updating.

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Comments

[Ayush Kumar]

Did that, but it didn't worked for me. I eventually upgraded to 17.10

[givanse]

results in W: Failed to fetch http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty/InRelea‌​se Could not resolve 'us.old-releases.ubuntu.com' got include us. in the search pattern

[pritam]

somehow the find-and-replace didn't work well for me and encountered similar issue. So opened /etc/apt/sources.list, and replaced it manually to make the URLs as old-releases.ubuntu.com instead of us.old-releases.ubuntu.com and update command started working well.