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Software Updater Not Working

Linuxfanboy

Sun May 18, 2014 6:12:00 pm

Made a mistake on the last post. Using Zorin OS 7.1 32 bit desktop edition, not version 8.1. When I turn on my computer, it runs a software updater. Lately, the message reads "failed to download repository information." It has been doing this the last few weeks. Tried to update with terminal using sudo apt-get update and get this error message "Some index files failed to download they have been ignored, or old ones used instead." Do i need to change to a different repository and if so which one? Thank you.

Wolfgang02

Sun May 18, 2014 7:01:31 pm

It seems you have some entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list that point to repositories that don't exists anymore. Try commenting out any entries that caused an error and then run apt-get update again.

can you post the sources.list here so we can see what the problem is? May be you could get them from a different server? Or they could be out dated and not needed.

Wolfman

Sun May 18, 2014 7:39:47 pm

See software update guide for info:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2247