installing git on ubuntu 12.10

Question

I am unable to install git on my ubuntu 12.10 system. I followed-

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core

sudo apt-get update gives me the error-

Err http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found
Err http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/restricted amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found
Err http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found
Err http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found

Err http://archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/universe amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found

Err http://archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com quantal/universe amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found

Then some failed to fetch errors and finally-

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

When I run sudo apt-get install git, I get-

Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  git-man liberror-perl
Suggested packages:
  git-daemon-run git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-arch git-cvs git-svn
  git-email git-gui gitk gitweb
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  git git-man liberror-perl
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,800 kB/6,824 kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  liberror-perl git-man git
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main git-man all 1:1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1
  404  Not Found
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main git amd64 1:1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1
  404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/git/git-man_1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb  404  Not Found
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/git/git_1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb  404  Not Found
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

I have just set up ubuntu and this is the first I tried installing. Please help.

Ubuntu 12.10 has reached it End of Life(EOL) and its repositories have been moved to an archive server. Use the link provided by @muru to change your sources to the archive server. — Rohith Madhavan, Dec 09 '14 at 07:27
I would advise you to install a supported version, ie Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10. — Rohith Madhavan, Dec 09 '14 at 07:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 09 '14 at 08:27

Ubuntu 12.10 has reached End Of Life and is no longer supported.

You use digitalocean mirrors,

edit your /etc/apt/source.list to:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main 

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates main 

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main universe 

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise universe 

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates universe

and then execute

do-release-upgrade

This is just a temporary workaround for those who haven't upgraded yet, but still its strongly recommended your system to latest version ASAP, to avail all security updates.

installing git on ubuntu 12.10

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