change from mx to us repositories?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jul 6 20:27:28 UTC 2009


On 07/06/2009 10:33 AM, Brendan Miller wrote:
> For some reason when I installed ubuntu I was pointed at the mx
> repositories. I tried editing all the entries in /etc/apt/sources.list
> to point to us.archive.* but apt-get update seems to ignore the
> changes:

How did you modify? You must use sudo (gksu) to make the changes:

$ gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Or change via Synaptics or Software Sources:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
Change the 'Download from:'





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