<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div></div> <div>On Saturday, 24 March 2018, 10:36:56 am AEST, Geoffrey Combes <gcombes4@bigpond.com> wrote: </div><div id="ydpf87425c3yahoo_quoted_2338269134" class="ydpf87425c3yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><div dir="ltr">My Ubuntu 1604 updater is responding with the message "Failed to <br></div><div dir="ltr">download package files - check you internet connections"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The internet connection is fine. I have tried the restore bash command <br></div><div dir="ltr">for update and upgrade given to me by Paul Gear but that has not <br></div><div dir="ltr">resolved the problem on this occasion.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Any other suggestions, please.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Geoffrey Combes<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">ubuntu-au mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a><br><br><br>Change the "download from" server for software/updates to <a href="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive.</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This is the fastest server for Australia, but more importantly getting it to reset the software list may fix your problem. Sometimes it gets confused about what server and what software list it is supposed to be using. I've had that happen a couple of times over the years. I don't know what causes it.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Chris<br></div></div> </div> </div></div></body></html>