[ubuntu-za] Failed updates

[Jan Greeff]

Ok thanks Adrianna, I have all those listed by you, inter alia.

On 31/07/2015 21:34, Adrianna Pińska wrote:
> trusty-security is actually on a separate server.  I am also on
> Trusty; I checked my own sources.list file.  Make sure that you have
> these lines:
>
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main restricted
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main restricted
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security universe
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security universe
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse
>
> (If you don't have deb-src entries for other things, or they're
> commented out, you can just comment these deb-src lines out as well.)
>
> I think you can also just have one entry for "main restricted universe
> multiverse" instead of splitting them up.
>
>
> On 31 July 2015 at 21:28, Adrianna Pińska <adrianna.pinska at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Make sure that you still have trusty-security in your sources.list, or
>> you're going to be missing future security updates.
>>
>> On 31 July 2015 at 20:59, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net> wrote:
>>> I have removed "old releases" from the updates list, now I am getting:
>>>
>>> W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/
>>> stable/main i386 Packages
>>> (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
>>> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
>>>
>>> Running apt-get update does not help.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31/07/2015 20:47, Jan Greeff wrote:
>>>> Thanks Adrianna, but that still leaves the uninitiated stranded. As far as
>>>> I know, I update my LTS from the "normal distros" as I have always been
>>>> doing, so what am I doing wrong?  Now I am getting "failed to download
>>>> repository information."
>>>>
>>>> On 31/07/2015 20:23, Adrianna Pińska wrote:
>>>>> 404 doesn't mean that your internet connection isn't working. It means
>>>>> that the file you're looking for was not found on the server.
>>>>>
>>>>> Look here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/
>>>>>
>>>>> Trusty isn't there. That's because Trusty is an LTS release. It's
>>>>> still in the normal distros:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adrianna Pińska
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