don't see what's going on with apt

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 14:35 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
> I'm trying to use Linux Mint 14 as a virtualbox VM. It installs and  
> runs ok. With some exceptions. I wanted to run traceroute and got a  
> suggestion about installing it first. Then it wasn't found. So I ran  
> update and got a lot of errors like those below. I tried to run  
> --fix-missing and got more another error, apparently telling me that  
> --fix-missing isn't an option. Details follow, advice welcome.

Always run "apt-get update" if mysterious things start happening. in
fact, always run it first. It updates the source lists, so that apt-get
can find stuff in the right locations. That will probably deal with the
404 error you saw.

"--fix-missing" is not an apt-get command, as you found out. You could
try "apt-get install -f" instead.

Regards, K.

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