Updating 14.04.03

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:15:31AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I have a really old system that now I wish to update.
> When I do "apt update" I get errors
> 
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-backports/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages
>  Connection failed
> 
> This is because the Packages file is now a gz file and not just Packages.

This is a *red herring*.  It's just that apt reports the error without
the compression extension.  Whatever problem you're having (which I'm
not sure of - looks like a network issue maybe?) is *not* about Packages
vs. Packages.gz - you'd be seeing some other error message than
"Connection failed" if that were the case.

I know that this does not solve your problem, but I hope it will at
least allow you to avoid focusing on the wrong problem.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]