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can't update 12.04
I installed a fresh ubuntu 12.04 on my i5 machine.
However the update manager fails with the following error.
E:Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-security_multiverse_i18n_Index (1)
Any idea what should be done to get the updates to work ?
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Re: can't update 12.04
When I do a
sudo apt-get update
I get several messages of the form.
Get:70 http://archive.ubuntu.com precise-security/main i386 Packages [73 B]
91% [70 Packages bzip2 0 B] [Waiting for headers] 68.0 kB/s 12sbzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
Could this be the reason for the " E:Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-security_multiverse_i18n_Index (1)" error?
How do I fix this ?
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Re: can't update 12.04
In terminal:
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update
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Re: can't update 12.04
i tried
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update
but the same error :(
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Re: can't update 12.04
Hi ,
can you give here the results of this command ?
Code:
find /etc/apt -name '*.list' -exec bash -c 'echo -e "\n$1\n"; cat -n "$1"' _ '{}' \;
Click on "New Reply" and put the results inside [CODE] tags to be easier to read. See here how
Thanks
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Re: can't update 12.04
Hi NikTh
This is the output of the find command
Code:
/etc/apt/sources.list
1 # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20120823.1)]/ dists/precise/main/binary-i386/
2
3 # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20120823.1)]/ dists/precise/restricted/binary-i386/
4 # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20120823.1)]/ precise main restricted
5
6 # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
7 # newer versions of the distribution.
8 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main restricted
9 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main restricted
10
11 ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
12 ## distribution.
13 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates main restricted
14 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates main restricted
15
16 ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
17 ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
18 ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
19 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise universe
20 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise universe
21 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates universe
22 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates universe
23
24 ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
25 ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
26 ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
27 ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
28 ## security team.
29 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise multiverse
30 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise multiverse
31 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates multiverse
32 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates multiverse
33
34 ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
35 ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
36 ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
37 ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
38 ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
39 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse
40 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse
41
42 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted
43 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted
44 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security universe
45 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security universe
46 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security multiverse
47 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security multiverse
48
49 ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
50 ## 'partner' repository.
51 ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
52 ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
53 # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
54 # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
55
56 ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
57 ## developers who want to ship their latest software.
58 deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
59 deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
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Re: can't update 12.04
open your terminal and type as
Code:
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt-get update
one more helpful link : http://askubuntu.com/questions/19022...m-rf-and-rm-vf
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Re: can't update 12.04
Are you building or modifying software packages from source code?
If not, uncheck source code and update. That may clear the problem.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...u_Software_Tab
Hi raja
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Re: can't update 12.04
@ ibjsb4
I unchecked all the source code but that doesn't help.
@ Raja.genupula
I've tried removing the lists already, but the error
still persists.
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Re: can't update 12.04