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Hi,Originally Posted by ajgreeny
If I understand your advice correctly, perform following steps;
1)2)Code:$ sudo apt-get purge firefox3)Code:$ sudo apt-get purge chrome4)Code:$ sudo apt-get clean5)Code:$ sudo apt-get install firefox
As advised by vasa1 in the posting below;
Download chrome on;
https://www.google.com/chrome/browse...top/index.html
6)
Install chrome running;If I'm wrong please correct me. ThanksCode:$ sudo dpkg -i chrome_deb_package.
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satimis
Ubuntu addict and loving it
Performed update and upgrade
⟫ sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgradeUbuntu 16.04 is up-to-dateCode:Hit:1 http://ubuntu.01link.hk xenial InRelease Hit:2 http://ubuntu.01link.hk xenial-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://ubuntu.01link.hk xenial-backports InRelease Hit:4 http://ubuntu.01link.hk xenial-security InRelease Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
satimis
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Typically chrome might require dependencies not installed.If I'm wrong please correct me. Thanks
(since you had chrome previously, that's not much of a problem)
But you can install chrome, and it's dependencies with
Otherwise to install with dpkg you need to runCode:sudo apt install ~/Downloads/google-chrome_some-version-name/nuber.deb
You run the install -f command because dpkg does not handle dependencies so the system would otherwise consider the installation broken.Code:cd Downloads sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-some-version-name/number.deb sudo apt-get install -f
Which the install -f command goes ahead and fixes.
Again, though, since you have previously installed chrome, the need to install it's needed dependencies should be moot.
Edit:
We know that's not true.Ubuntu 16.04 is up-to-date
Looking at the mirror:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+mirror...ink.hk-archive
it shows it has not been verified for over a year now.
Might be that it's frozen.
My suggestion would be to try another mirror.
Easiest method is to open Software and Updates
Go down to download Form: toggle the dropdown bar and select Other.
Then go to the top right of the new window and hit Select Best Server and let it run; it'll find the fastest server to your machine based on current speeds.
Then hit Choose server.
Close software and updates; it should automatically run a reload, that's an apt-get update.
if all works as expected you might get a Software Updates are available message.
That would mean the updater works properly now.
Install the updates and profit.
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Last edited by deadflowr; October 17th, 2017 at 05:28 PM.
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Start "Software and Updates"
-> Choose a Download Server
there are only 3 mirrors under "Hong Kong"
(please see attached screenshot)
Is there anyway to check which of the other two is reliable?
satimis
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the ftp.cuhk.edu.hk mirror is an Official mirror, so it should be up-to-date.
I would try that one.
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@deadflowr, please see https://github.com/Debian/apt/blob/1...output.cc#L273 which explains matters in a very technical way!
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Hi,
Thanks for your advice.
Performed following steps:
On Terminal
$ cd /etc/apt
$ sudo cp sources.list sources.list_old_20171019
Start Software & Updates
-> Download from: Server for Hong Kong
Remark:login "To change sofware repository settings, you need to authenticate"Code:Just finished installing Ubuntu 16.04 desktop on a new 250G SanDisk SSD Download from: Server for Hong Kong
-> Authenticate
-> Close
On Terminal run;Code:The information about available software is out-of-date To install software and updates from newly added or changed sources, you have to reload the information about available software. You need a working internet connection to continue.
⟫ sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade⟫ systemctl rebootCode:.... .... Setting up update-notifier (3.168.5) ... Setting up update-manager (1:16.04.9) ... Setting up flashplugin-installer (27.0.0.170ubuntu0.16.04.1) ... Setting up libpurple0 (1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.2) ... Setting up libpurple-bin (1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.2) ... Setting up liboxideqtcore0:amd64 (1.21.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ... Setting up liboxideqtquick0:amd64 (1.21.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ... Setting up liboxideqt-qmlplugin:amd64 (1.21.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.3) ... Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.8) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-97-generic Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu19) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20170717~16.04.1) ... Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs... WARNING: Skipping duplicate certificate UbuntuOne-Go_Daddy_Class_2_CA.pem WARNING: Skipping duplicate certificate UbuntuOne-Go_Daddy_Class_2_CA.pem 17 added, 42 removed; done. Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d... done. Processing triggers for resolvconf (1.78ubuntu4) ...
After booting:-
⟫ lsb_release -a⟫ firefox -vCode:No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial⟫ google-chrome --versionCode:Mozilla Firefox 56.0Is it the latest version for Ubuntu 16.04 ?Code:Google Chrome 48.0.2564.82
⟫ ls /etc/apt/⟫ cat /etc/apt/sources.list >> sources_list_20171019.txtCode:apt.conf.d sources.list.d sources.list.save trusted.gpg~ preferences.d sources.list.distUpgrade trustdb.gpg trusted.gpg.d sources.list sources.list_old_20171019 trusted.gpg
sources_list_20171019.txt attached.
Any further step is needed? Thanks
Edit
====
$ sudo apt update ; sudo apt dist-upgrade
$ sudo apt autoremove
Regards
satimis
Last edited by satimis; October 19th, 2017 at 05:23 PM.
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I've already told you that your Google Chrome is very, very old. It's now v62. Google Chrome isn't present by default in any Ubuntu flavor.
And what about the output from uname -a?
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Well chrome is old and not the latest version.
What does the chrome ppa/repo entry say?
(It should be listed in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory as something like google-chrome.list)
The proper entry should be something like
You might check if the entry is either disabled (with a # at the beginning) or if the whole file is disabled (the name would end with a .save, typically)Code:deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
You can run
to see all the files in the directory.Code:ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
If either the entry or the filename is marked as disabled, simply try removing the # or .save , then try running another update.
If that makes sense.
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OK I'll reinstall google-chrome later.
⟫ uname -aAnd what about the output from uname -a?satimisCode:Linux ub1604ssd1tb 4.4.0-97-generic #120-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 19 17:28:18 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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