{"id":873,"date":"2009-06-02T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2009-06-02T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T10:54:58","slug":"repositories-are-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Repositories were down, working fine again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edit: The repositories are working fine again. Sorry for the downtime and the inconvenience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Original message below:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We&#8217;re experiencing problems with the server hosting our repositories. As we can&#8217;t access it remotely we&#8217;ve ordered a manual intervention and we&#8217;re currently waiting for this to happen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the meantime you can use Linux Mint just as you did before but:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>mintUpdate will be slower to refresh (it will try to download the latest safety rules from that server, then timeout, then work normally)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>you will see error messages when updating your APT cache<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>the website http:\/\/packages.linuxmint.com will be unavailable<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>you SHOULD NOT upgrade from Mint 6 to Mint 7 (wait until this problem is solved before upgrading, otherwise you&#8217;ll miss all the packages maintained by Mint and you&#8217;ll only get an update on the Ubuntu package base itself)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Our apologies for the inconvenience. We&#8217;re trying to fix this problem as quick as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edit: The repositories are working fine again. Sorry for the downtime and the inconvenience. Original message below: We&#8217;re experiencing problems with the server hosting our repositories. As we can&#8217;t access it remotely we&#8217;ve ordered a manual intervention and we&#8217;re currently waiting for this to happen. In the meantime you can use Linux Mint just as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}