I am using a physical server right now. I have installed MAAS and cannot use the apt-get function at all. When I type sudo apt-get update I get a long string with some things updating and most things returning an error (output for this command at bottom of question). If I type apt-get install [any package at all] I get something like this:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package vim is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'vim' has no installation candidate
ifconfig returns all the correct information, eth0 is up and running, I can ping any website I like, I can connect over ssh, I can even access the server from my browser on another computer but apt won't work for anything. I have tried to reinstall three times with different boot disks and one of those times I even tried using the standard Ubuntu Server and wound up with the exact same problem. Also apt is working fine on other computers on the network.
Stackoverflow won't let me print out the output for update without 10 reputation and it's too long for a comment so here is the last part of it (the rest is just err [link] packages).
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages HttpError404W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-security/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages HttpError404
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Packagesdoesn't exist, butPackages.gzdoes. Something seems to be odd withapt. Can you post the contents of/etc/apt/sources.listthrough Ubuntu Pastebin, and add a link here? – saiarcot895 Jul 23 '14 at 18:39apt search vim+ Enter ... for vim editor. – swift Jul 23 '14 at 19:34apt-config dump– bain Jul 23 '14 at 20:29