Software repository failure

Jim jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Mon Jul 15 18:47:18 UTC 2019


On 7/13/19 4:07 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 at 22:00, Jim <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> I was trying to update Ubuntu 18.04 on a laptop I seldom use and got a
>> message saying it could not connect to a repository check your internet
>> connection. Nothing was wrong with the connection. It did not say which
>> repository it could not connect to, so what log do I look at to identify it?
> 
> Probably it is a temporary issue with the repository server, which may
> well have gone away by now.  If not then in a terminal run
> sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
> and see if any errors are shown.
> 
> Colin
> 

Thanks Colin.

That got me the info I needed. It said Chrome stable Release changed its 
Origin value from Google, Inc to Google LLC. Once I explicitly accepted 
that change I was able to update.

Regards,  Jim





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