Question

I have been trying to install the curl extension using sudo apt-get install php5-curl. But keep getting the below error message

Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main php5-curl 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.17
404  Not Found 
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main php5-curl 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.17
404  Not Found 
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/php5/php5-curl_5.3.2-1ubuntu4.17_amd64.deb  404  Not Found 
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

I tried running php -i | grep curl to check if curl is already installed but get got
-bash: php: command not found

I figured i had to install php5-cli extension, an attempt to do that also resulted in the error below

Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main php5-cli 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.17
404  Not Found
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main php5-cli 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.17
404  Not Found 
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/php5/php5-cli_5.3.2-1ubuntu4.17_amd64.deb  404  Not Found 
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Answer 1

Can you ping security.ubuntu.com?

If so, try the following sequence:

sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5 php5-cli