rpaskudniak
May 18th, 2016, 05:52 PM
Greetings.
I have been absent from this forum for a while but please treat me like a returning runaway. :redface: And note how concisely (NOT) I explain my problem. ;)
Last week I reformatted all of my Ubuntu file systems and installed a fresh copy of 16.04. I was able to run a few software updates (discovering that Update Manager is now called "Software Updater") but as of this week, I have a problem: I keep getting the error box telling me:
Failed to download repository information
Check your internet connection
Obviously, there is nothing wrong my internet connection; on on the forum, after all. My first Google search for the message sent me to StackExchange (http://askubuntu.com/questions/141512/how-to-resolve-failed-to-download-repository-information) where the problem was blamed on the installation of Google Chrome and referred to release 14.04. But I have not installed Google Chrome. I am using the Ubuntu-packaged Chromium but the file referenced in that forum does not exist for me so those solutions were useless.
There have been several suggestion to run sudo apt-get update at the terminal. But that had a few failures. While the entire output of that command is attached, I wanted to include the error lines here:
Ign:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexeftimie/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons
Err:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexeftimie/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found
Err:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexeftimie/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
OK, so I restarted the Updater, went to Settings and unchecked the alexeftimie entry. No help; it did the check again and still zapped me. What's more, a small box keeps teasing me that updates are available but it vanishes when I try to hover the mouse thereon. ](*,)
Where do I from here to get those *&^%! updates?
Thanks much!
I have been absent from this forum for a while but please treat me like a returning runaway. :redface: And note how concisely (NOT) I explain my problem. ;)
Last week I reformatted all of my Ubuntu file systems and installed a fresh copy of 16.04. I was able to run a few software updates (discovering that Update Manager is now called "Software Updater") but as of this week, I have a problem: I keep getting the error box telling me:
Failed to download repository information
Check your internet connection
Obviously, there is nothing wrong my internet connection; on on the forum, after all. My first Google search for the message sent me to StackExchange (http://askubuntu.com/questions/141512/how-to-resolve-failed-to-download-repository-information) where the problem was blamed on the installation of Google Chrome and referred to release 14.04. But I have not installed Google Chrome. I am using the Ubuntu-packaged Chromium but the file referenced in that forum does not exist for me so those solutions were useless.
There have been several suggestion to run sudo apt-get update at the terminal. But that had a few failures. While the entire output of that command is attached, I wanted to include the error lines here:
Ign:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexeftimie/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons
Err:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexeftimie/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found
Err:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexeftimie/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
OK, so I restarted the Updater, went to Settings and unchecked the alexeftimie entry. No help; it did the check again and still zapped me. What's more, a small box keeps teasing me that updates are available but it vanishes when I try to hover the mouse thereon. ](*,)
Where do I from here to get those *&^%! updates?
Thanks much!