Thursday, May 07, 2026

Fixing error 401 Unauthorized IP: $IPADRESS when running apt-get on Linux

 I have a very dated VM that works as a mail forwarder for my organization, it is a Ubuntu Server VM running 20.04 LTS which connects to google workspaces and sends email for our on prem devices such as copiers, software, scripts, etc.  I went to run some security updates using apt-get and I got an interesting error saying that there is a 401 Error Unauthorized IP.


The fix is to disable the sources in the sources.list directory, which I have two files.

  • ubuntu-esm-infra.list
  • ubuntu-esm-infra.list.distUpgrade


In VI I commented out the source lines.


reinstalled apt


After I was able to update the system; and upgrade the outdated packages.  Now I can go headed and upgrade the system to the newer release.



Fixing error 401 Unauthorized IP: $IPADRESS when running apt-get on Linux

 I have a very dated VM that works as a mail forwarder for my organization, it is a Ubuntu Server VM running 20.04 LTS which connects to goo...