trenza
April 30th, 2018, 06:21 PM
Hey everyone!
Let me lay out my situation here and give all the background info.
I'm doing mathematics work at my university, and I've been given the ability to login to a high-powered computation computer to do some long calculations. I log into the machine using ssh and its local address on the university's network.
I attempted to install sagemath on the computer, as I need it for some of the calculations I'm doing, but after adding the repository and, and doing
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sage-upstream-binary
the installation began, then failed with the following error:
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
Of course, I had already run update, but I tried --fix-missing, and unfortunately that did not solve the problem.
I then tried
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
and it failed with an identical error to when I tried to install sage.
Next I tried
$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
and, you guessed it, the same error as the last two.
It seems that all upgrade/install related commands are ending with this error. I've been given permission by the computer's owner (who doesn't know much about linux) to do what I need to to try and fix it, but I'm a little lost. Any suggestions?
Thanks! And please let me know if more info is required.
Edit: just realized I should probably add system info, huh?
The computer is running Ubuntu 15.04
Let me lay out my situation here and give all the background info.
I'm doing mathematics work at my university, and I've been given the ability to login to a high-powered computation computer to do some long calculations. I log into the machine using ssh and its local address on the university's network.
I attempted to install sagemath on the computer, as I need it for some of the calculations I'm doing, but after adding the repository and, and doing
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sage-upstream-binary
the installation began, then failed with the following error:
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
Of course, I had already run update, but I tried --fix-missing, and unfortunately that did not solve the problem.
I then tried
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
and it failed with an identical error to when I tried to install sage.
Next I tried
$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
and, you guessed it, the same error as the last two.
It seems that all upgrade/install related commands are ending with this error. I've been given permission by the computer's owner (who doesn't know much about linux) to do what I need to to try and fix it, but I'm a little lost. Any suggestions?
Thanks! And please let me know if more info is required.
Edit: just realized I should probably add system info, huh?
The computer is running Ubuntu 15.04