Repositories for TDE was Re: [trinity-users] Slávek's repository

On Saturday 03 October 2015 00:28:39 Slávek Banko wrote: Yes, Slávek, I'm sorry. I managed to install with Tim's repositories, and, once I could see a bit, there was a comma instead of a full stop at one point in your repository in my sorces.list. I had checked and checked it, but i just couldn't see it!! :-( I was lucky that Tim's was OK. It very rarely is. It is inaccessible again this morning. This is an ongoing problem that I have with spreading the word about TDE. Tim's repository is almost normally not available for us (in England? On the South Coast? Everyone I know who tries to use TDE!), and it is hard to find anything else to use. When I asked recently I was told just to use Tim's and it would chose the best mirror. That is no use if Tim's is unavailable. I always say just to use Slávek's. Yesterday was the first time that Slávek's has appeared to be unavailable, and in fact it was. It is very reliable, but hard to find for someone happening on the website. The error message that I am currently getting (it has been alright on this particular computer for the last few days since I set it up when I wrote the other day and asked about mirrors) is under my signature. Can we at least localise this problem. It has been there ever since I have been using TDE and makes installing TDE difficult. Does it apply anywhere other than the south of England? Once we have localised it, can someone help me solve it? Perhaps we need to find a main mirror this side of the Atlantic. And meanwhile what mirror does anyone other than Mike (thanks for your advice, Mike, when I asked a week ago. But as you can see it hasn't helped) suggest for 3.5.13.2 now I can't use a nice reliable Slávek one for it? I currently can't connect to the web archive (I was going to link to my email about this of a week ago) so you won't even get this for a bit! One person, who sets computers up for "old people" and decided that Unity was too resource hungry for old computers, has abandoned TDE (which was front runner) in favour of LXDE largely because of this problem. It is really very tedious to be unable to install/update time after time while you wait for whatever gremlin is amusing himself to go away. I just said to use Slávek's repository, but he very reasonably pointed out that it doesn't say so here: I was going to link to the page on how to get TDE. It is unavailable. There is obviously a larger problem at the moment. But the update problem is ongoing. There must be a reliable mirror somewhere that can be reached from England. If not, give me a mentor who will help with advice, because I don't know where or how to start, and I'll try to find you one. And anyhow I'll start asking people how to do it. The best, of course, would be to be in Debian's repostitories, but we haven't the resources for that. :-( Perhaps we are just too small and need to find a millionnaire? Lisi Error message for update: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/d…: Could not connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:80 (192.119.205.243). - connect (113: No route to host) W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1…: Unable to connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/d…: Unable to connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/d…: Unable to connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1…: Unable to connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1…: Unable to connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/d…: Unable to connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/d…: Unable to connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1…: Unable to connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1…: Unable to connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http: E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. E: Couldn't rebuild package cache