Ubuntu Issues need help

Antony Kipingor kipingor at gmail.com
Fri May 16 10:36:36 BST 2008


Thanks Anthony all that info. help, I think I have a corrupted sourcelist,
can someone please paste a source lsit for 7.04

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Anthony Kagotho <anthony at kagotho.com>
wrote:

> hi Liam,
>
> Hope this reply is not too late.
> There are 3 possibilities:-
>
> 1. apt-get system is messed up in which case running the command "sudo
> apt-get dist-upgrade" should sort you out.
>
> 2. There are canonical commercial repositiories mentioned in your sources
> list which for some reason cannot be used. You can comment them and see if
> this helps
>
> 3. There is a proxy server between you and the ubuntu repos that is acting
> up.  You can try running the commands on a direct link.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Thanks.
> Anthony
>
>
> Liam wrote:
>
>> This email is from a ubuntu-ke subscriber to other subscribers inluding
>> you:)
>>
>> Hi all,
>> Hope you are well, I have been having a few issues with my ubuntu server,
>> I
>> am unable to install any packages when I run
>> # sudo apt-get update
>> it presents me with the following error:
>> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
>> ones
>> used instead.
>> I tried
>> # sudo apt-get clean
>> then
>> # sudo apt-get update and get the same error
>> I also get  a dpkg error before when try and onstall an application:
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>> I run
>> # sudo sed -i '1 s/sh -e/sh/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.postinst
>> and its still does not run, I have even tried:
>> # sudo apt-get -f install
>> # sudo apt-get -f update
>> # sudo apt-get -f upgrade
>> and nothing
>> # sudo apt-get install --fix-missing
>> # sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
>> # sudo apt-get upgrade --fix-missing
>>
>> can anyone help
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