[SOLVED] software update not working

[Colin Law]

On 18 September 2014 11:01, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
> (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.

If you got no errors then it was just a temporary issue with one of
the repositories, and trying again in update manager would also have
worked.

Colin