[SOLVED] software update not working

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

(2014/09/18 5:38), Colin Law wrote:
> On 17 September 2014 18:10, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
>>   a red warning sign in the notification area telling me "A problem occurred when checking
>> for the updates".
>> Attempts to check for updates or starting the Synaptic Package Manager fail.
> Do you mean xubutu 14.04?
>
> The update problem may just be a temporary issue with a repository.
> If not then open a terminal and run
> sudo apt-get update
> to check for updates.  That should give you more information.
> Probably one of the repositories is not accessible.  If you try the
> same on the other machine you should be able to see what is different.
> If the update runs ok then
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> to actually fetch and install the updates.
>
> Colin
>
Thank you!
Those two command apparently took care of that.