unable to locate package
 

hi guys and merry christmas. i have just moved home and i am trying to update my jessie distribution and also download and install kodi. I have no i dea why it wont update. i am using the new york city columbia university servers but it says the updates have expired. Im out of my league in terms of expertise. can any one help? thank you in advance.


apt-get update
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20160123-19:04] jessie InRelease
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20160123-19:04] jessie Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20160123-19:04] jessie Release
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20160123-19:04] jessie/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20160123-19:04] jessie/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease
Ign http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu jessie InRelease
Ign http://linux.dropbox.com jessie InRelease
Hit http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu jessie-updates InRelease
Get:1 http://linux.dropbox.com jessie Release.gpg [473 B]
Get:2 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [916 B]
Hit http://linux.dropbox.com jessie Release
Get:3 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
E: Release file for http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/debian...ates/InRelease is expired (invalid since 9d 13h 15min 29s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
root@debian:/home/francis#
root@debian:/home/francis# apt-get install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package kodi

Happy holidays! According to Kodi website you need to enable "backports" repository to install Kodi in Debian Jessie. Here are instructions to do that:

http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_for_Linux

For the 'release file' error, you can try using a different mirror. Here is a list of Debian mirrors: https://www.debian.org/mirror/list

hi snowpine. thank you for your reply. i already added
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main

to the sources.list and it still gives me the error. I will try changing the mirror now

just for the record, i had 2 versions of the columbia mirror in the sources.list
i managed to update jessie and also download kodi. thank you for your help. im sorry it was user error.

Glad to hear it's fixed. p.s. feel free to mark as '[SOLVED]' (ThreadTools at top). Best wishes!