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While running the update at Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr). The following error is being encountered:

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/universe/binary-amd64/Packages  Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages  Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages  Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/universe/binary-i386/Packages  Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages  Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/main/i18n/Translation-en  Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/universe/i18n/Translation-en  Hash Sum mismatch

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

command used:

sudo apt-get update
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Enter the following commands in a Terminal:

sudo rm -vf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt-get update
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    +1 for me. However, it would be great if you could comment why this issue happens.
    – ECII
    Nov 30, 2014 at 13:23
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    see this answer for the root cause: askubuntu.com/a/160179/66329 -- TLDR: due to race conditions, your local repo cache can get into an inconsistent state; so delete it and apt-get update will refresh the whole thing from source
    – Justin Ludwig
    May 9, 2015 at 20:17
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    after that i got "Failed to fetch archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-security/main/… Hash Sum mismatch"
    – vuhung3990
    Aug 2, 2015 at 5:38
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    I fixed it using sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get update
    – Clayton Dukes
    Jan 11, 2016 at 18:07
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    @ClaytonDukes After sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf, I repeated sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get update several times, then finally this issue is fixed.
    – Eric
    May 4, 2016 at 6:28

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