Lite 3.8 update failure

[lewisw62]

Hi Everyone

I have a complete update failure of a 32 bit Lite 3.8 machine that mentions an ip address and 'main i386 packages'. I have another similar machine that is still updating perfectly connected to the same router. Can anyone suggest a remedy? Here is the update failure log:

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Install Updates Error log
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Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Ign:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nemh/systemback/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial Release
Ign:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages.diff/Index
Hit:8 http://archive.canonical.com xenial InRelease
Hit:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main all Packages
Ign:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en_US
Hit:12 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite citrine InRelease
Ign:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en.diff/Index
Hit:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Ign:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main all Packages
Ign:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en_US
Ign:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en
Hit:17 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Ign:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main all Packages
Ign:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en_US
Hit:18 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed InRelease
Ign:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en
Ign:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main all Packages
Hit:19 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Ign:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en_US
Ign:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en
Ign:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main all Packages
Ign:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en_US
Ign:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en
Ign:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main all Packages
Ign:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en_US
Ign:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en
Err:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
  403  Forbidden [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Ign:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en
Reading package lists...
W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...ree/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/peppe...6/Packages  403  Forbidden [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[torreydale]

[member=10077]lewisw62[/member] ,

From your output and based on the following link, you may need to remove the pepperflash PPA.  I believe pepperflash is already part of the repository for Linux Lite 3.8, so you should be able to install it via Install/Remove Software, and you'll have one less PPA to worry about.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=306890

[lewisw62]

Many thanks for the suggestion torreydale. It's all rather odd. Install/remove i.e. Synaptic reports that pepperflash is not installed. It also reports that Adobe Flash is not installed. Meanwhile firefox at first reported in red that the Flash plug-in was out of date and vulnerable. Then I disabled it, and now the Adobe flash download site says I should download it, and Firefox says it does not exist to re-enable it. Meanwhile video web sites continue to work, presumably via HTML5, and the update error and log remains unaltered. So I attempted to install pepperflash, in order to clean up by uninstalling it, and it refuses to install with a similar error to the update. It seems to have been withdrawn. So how do I clean up I wonder? To me it looks like a re-install of Lite 3.8 itself, start again. Quite a mess.

[lewisw62]

I have had to re-install Lite 3.8. I backed up and restored my desktop shortcuts, which was most of my personalisation. Website video is working well so far without flash. Updates are coming in fine.