Package updater fails

[Ollie R]

Hi. I just got my first raspberry pi (raspberry pi 400).
When we did the setup, it went to update, but failed - I didn’t write down the error message.
Now, when I try to go into the recommended software section, it comes up with:

Error updating package data - E:
Repository’http://
raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster
InRelease’ changed its ‘Suite’ value from
‘stable’ to ‘oldstable’

Then it just gives the option of “ok” and when you click that the recommended software screen closes.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Morphit]

I'm not sure what caused this but the same happened to me while using apt update. I tried accepting the change:

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sudo apt update --allow-releaseinfo-change

But this still didn't work:

E: The value 'stable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

I had to alter the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99defaultrelease from

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APT::Default-Release "stable";

to

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APT::Default-Release "oldstable";

Then the above command worked. I'm not sure what this means long term, it might need to be reverted or an update applied some other way (is there a new release to upgrade to?).

[Ollie R]

Thanks Morphit.
Unfortunately I don’t seem to have that file! Located the folder yours was in, but no file with that name, or anything similar. The only files in that folder are:
01autoremove
01autoremove-kernels
20listchanges
20packagekit
50raspi
70debconf

Any one have any tips?

[Cloudcentric]

Thanks Morphit.
Unfortunately I don’t seem to have that file! Located the folder yours was in, but no file with that name, or anything similar. The only files in that folder are:
01autoremove
01autoremove-kernels
20listchanges
20packagekit
50raspi
70debconf

Any one have any tips?

Raspberry Pi Operating System open the Terminal:

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sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo reboot

[Ollie R]

Thank you! That worked.
Complete newbie, so I was completely lost.

[Gruntfuttock59]

Hi,

joined just to say thank you to Cloudcentric for the solution provided. I have just purchased a Pi-400 and had exactly this issue when trying to update or load any new packages.

This lot worked a treat but the full-upgrade took quite a while (15 mins?).

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo reboot

[harraz]

This works, thanks for posting!

[medo001]

Thanks Cloudcentri. This has worked