[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.04 - failing to retrieve packages from server when installing/updating software

[David King]

Rob Beard wrote:
>
> Have you updated the package sources list?
>
> In a terminal run...
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> or open Update Manager and click the Check button and it'll update the 
> list of packages.
>
> I've seen this sort of thing happen when the packages have been updated 
> (for instance Firefox has recently been updated to 3.6.7) and the old 
> packages have been removed, as the list of packages hasn't been updated 
> it still looks for the older version.
>
> If you update your package list and run Update Manager again it should 
> hopefully pick up the changes in packages and install the newest versions.
>
> Rob
>
>   

Thanks, Rob, I did that and it worked!

David