Important Security Update Error

[John Graddy]

On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 15:53 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/26/2009 03:09 PM, John Graddy wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 14:36 -0700, Keith wrote:
> >> On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:03:16 -0500, you wrote:
> >> 
> >> >I have been out of town for a while, and, when I returned, I had a lot
> >> >of system updates waiting for me.  When I tried to install the updates,
> >> >one of them (labeled as an "Important Security Update" got the following
> >> >error message:
> >> >
> >> >W: Failed to fetch
> >> >http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.8.2-11ubuntu0.9.04.1_i386.deb
> >> >  404 Not Found
> >> >
> >> >Is this something that I should worry about?  Unfortunately, the Update
> >> >Manager keeps coming back to try to install this failed update.  Can I
> >> >stop this from happening?
> >> >
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >John
> >> 
> >> Open a terminal and type 
> >> 
> >> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
> >> 
> >> on the command line. See if that fixes the missing package.
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > I did as you suggested.  The output follows:
> > 
> > W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386
> > (20080423)/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages  Please use apt-cdrom
> > to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to
> > add new CD-ROMs
> > 
> > W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386
> > (20080423)/dists/hardy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages  Please use
> > apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot
> > be used to add new CD-ROMs
> > 
> > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
> > ones used instead.
> > 
> >>From the last line, I assume that all is well.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > John
> 
> Are you using 9.04 (jaunty) or 8.04 (hardy)?
> Either way, you can easily remove the CDrom:
> System|Administration|Software Sources|Ubuntu Software|Installable from
> CD-ROM/DVD|untick. Same if you have anything the 'Third-Party Sofware'
> tab with 'Cdrom'.
> 
> 
> 
> 
I am using 9.04 (Jaunty).  Thanks for the information.  I didn't realize
that the CDROM option was there.

John