Failing Repositories? What is that all about?

[Pete Wright]

Thanks, Mike!


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Pete Wright <pnwright at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I keep getting a message to "manually update."
>> When I do it shows "software up to date."
>> But it keeps saying "information out of date" and when I try to fix it
>> says "check internet connection."
>> All my other software is connecting okay; Firefox, Software Center, etc.,
>> so obviously my connection is working as well as it ever does (I live in
>> the Far Thulies and suffer abuse at the hands of CenturyLink who put all
>> their effort into making sure my connection never EXCEEDS the speed I pay
>> for, never mind it never reaches it).
>> Hope the rest of you are having a better weekend.
>> In fact, instead of reading and answering this, go outdoors.
>> Maybe I will, too.
>> Grins
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> personally, i disable upgrades (automatic ones) and run this manually in a
> terminal..
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> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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> you might want to run "sudo apt-get update" separately and troubleshoot
> any errors you see there before wasting time other places. if you have
> issue on your end with your connection, you will need to troubleshoot those
> independently of the OS. dist-upgrade does *not* upgrade the distribution..
> cheers!
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>> Pete
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