I don't need this update, but it's broken and keeps reminding me

[Chris]

Dave M G wrote:
> Ubuntu Users,
> 
> This morning in the usual bundle of updates, I upgraded to kernel 
> 2.6.20-15-generic, among other things.
> 
> When the updates were all done, I noticed that the orange update icon 
> was still there. I clicked it again, and it said I had one distribution 
> update to download:
> linux-image-2.6.20-14-generic.
> 
> I thought that was odd, but I selected to update anyway, but it stopped 
> on an error, saying:
> 
> W: Failed to fetch 
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-source-2.6.20/linux-image-2.6.20-14-generic_2.6.20-14.23_i386.deb
>   403 Forbidden [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
> 
> I figured maybe there was an error in the repository or something, so I 
> tried switching to another repository. But this one package still comes up.
> 
> It won't download, and it won't go away.
> 
> And, unless there's something I don't understand here, I don't need it 
> anyway since I'm now at a more recent kernel.
> 
> What can I do about this annoying non-update?
> 

I had this too - remove lines within the /etc/apt/sources.list file that
refer to nabbing the src.

That worked for me.

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

BOFH excuse #98:

The vendor put the bug there.