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Timbergetter:
I think my problem is a little more extensive than indicated in my previous post. I have now tried to install the additional packages advised in “The Simple Guide To Compiling In Linux” with none of these packages being found.

What is the current advice for getting the Rockbox development package operating? Do you stick with Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 and somehow track down the repositories for unsupported software, or do you restart with current Ubuntu release and try to deduce what had been added to / removed from the published 11.04 image?
Please consider that I am a Linux novice for most purposes

saratoga:
If you use the Dev image you don't need to install anything most likely.

If you want to start from scratch then I would use a modern Ubuntu image.

[Saint]:
This points to something VERY wrong with your system.

Not a single one of the packages listed in the Simple Guide are in any way exotic, in fact many are essential, and all are currently valid. The instructions work the same way now on any given debian-esque system as the day they were written.

Did you perhaps fail to update your sources list before trying this? Even so...I would expect at least one or two packages to be present, ALL of the packages failing is highly suspect.

[Saint]

saratoga:
Its possible that the original ubuntu mirrors no longer exist given that the version is unsupported. Can probably find new ones on google, but I don't see why you'd need to?

Timbergetter:
I have gone back and started with a fresh Ubuntu image.
I have run apt-get update and found that “some index files failed to download.”
If I then issue apt-get install automake I get following result:

ubuntu@ubuntu-VirtualBox:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get install automake
[sudo] password for ubuntu:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
autoconf autotools-dev m4
Suggested packages:
autoconf2.13 autoconf-archive gnu-standards autoconf-doc libtool
The following NEW packages will be installed:
autoconf automake autotools-dev m4
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,344 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,735 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
m4 autoconf autotools-dev automake
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Err http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main m4 i386 1.4.16-1
404 Not Found [IP: 193.206.139.45 80]
Err http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main autoconf all 2.68-1ubuntu1
404 Not Found [IP: 193.206.139.45 80]
Err http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main autotools-dev all 20110511.1
404 Not Found [IP: 193.206.139.45 80]
Err http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main automake all 1:1.11.1-1ubuntu1
404 Not Found [IP: 193.206.139.45 80]
Failed to fetch http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/m4/m4_1.4.16-1_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 193.206.139.45 80]
Failed to fetch http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/autoconf/autoconf_2.68-1ubuntu1_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 193.206.139.45 80]
Failed to fetch http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/autotools-dev/autotools-dev_20110511.1_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 193.206.139.45 80]
Failed to fetch http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/automake1.11/automake_1.11.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 193.206.139.45 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

It seems that ubuntu 11.10 ran out of Support early in 2013 so is there a repository that I can add to sources.list that will find needed programs?

Attempting to install the following programs is met with “already newest version”:
build.essential
libc6-dev
libsdl1.2-dev
texinfo

Thanks Saint & saratoga for helping me here. I hope you are able to push me a little further towards the start line.

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