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As I am writing this (Friday, November 8, 2013 at 9:59:18 PM EST) launchpad is down. Apparently there is a power failure (https://twitter.com/launchpadstatus/status/398980619880775680). I tried running sudo apt-get update
on my Ubuntu install. However, I simply get stuck on this:
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net precise InRelease
100% [Waiting for headers]
Being a Ubuntu newbie, I tried to point my sources.list file to a different source. I backed up the original sources.list and then deleted the entire file to start afresh. I then added the following lines to it:
deb http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ precise main
deb-src http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ precise main
I figured that since I have a different mirror, there would be no problem updating. I was wrong. I get stuck at the same place.
I have several questions:
- Why do I need to hit launchpad? I do not reference it in my sources.list file at all. Is this something where the mirror redirects me to launchpad?
- Is there a good article out there that I can read on how exactly this whole
apt-get update
thing works that will help me understand why it is hitting launchpad? - Is there any way to get my Ubuntu to update while launchpad is down?
- Isn't there any redundancy for the launchpad servers?
Your question is the answer to the question I did not know I had. Have been trying to install node from Chris Lea's repository and had no idea of what was going wrong. Good luck with YOUR question. And thank you very much. – slacktracer – 2013-11-09T03:40:45.973