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lunokhod
March 1st, 2011, 01:06 AM
Hi I'm brand new to ubuntu I had an old laptop and a friend gave me a ubuntu version 8 i think instal disk and I'm trying to install from the add/remove applications it will usally get to about 44 then stop and come up the message "could not download all repository indexes" . I can't even get the current list of applications. Any help would be greatly appreciated

plucky
March 1st, 2011, 09:19 AM
Hi I'm brand new to ubuntu I had an old laptop and a friend gave me a ubuntu version 8 i think instal disk and I'm trying to install from the add/remove applications it will usally get to about 44 then stop and come up the message "could not download all repository indexes" . I can't even get the current list of applications. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and input
sudo apt-get update and post the output to the forum.

Also
cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Good luck