Failure to Fetch Wheezy Packages. Any Solutions?

samfon24 · 08-09-2015, 12:56 PM

Hello Everyone,

I ran a sudo apt-get update on my terminal and it updated everything but the Wheezy Packages. I received the following error message:

W: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/dists//wheezy/m...amd64/Packages
404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org./dists//wheezy/...amd64/Packages
404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/dists//wheezy/n...amd64/Packages
404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored or old ones used instead.

Any help or solutions for this issue please would be much appreciated. Thanks

flshope · 08-09-2015, 06:25 PM

Are you sure your sources.list contains valid entries? I installed wheezy about six months ago and used the sources.list from The Debian Administrator's Handbook:

Code:

# Security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
## Debian mirror
# Base repository
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
# Stable updates
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
# Stable backports
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free

I have not had any difficulties with software updates using the Update Manager. There is also an LQ Debian thread devoted to sources.list entries:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-list-330913/

norobro · 08-09-2015, 07:02 PM

Looks like in your sources.list you should have "debian-wheezy" not just "wheezy". link