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I'm new to Ubuntu, and I don't know where to go from here. This is preventing me from downloading anything. I've also had quite a few problems with Ubuntu in the last few days, I've done four installs.

It would seem whenever I update it, and I restart my laptop like prompted, it stays in infinite boot loop. Only solution is to re-install. At least that I've figured out. Thoughts?

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  • This answer might be relevant to you.
    – jokerdino
    Feb 14, 2012 at 10:24
  • What are the other problems you refer to? Are they related to other things than updating and downloading?
    – user47206
    Mar 20, 2012 at 17:19
  • @jokerdino Is the problem really the same there? dpkg reports a different reason for failing here than there. Anyway... This question appears to be abandoned and unanswered, if you are experiencing a similar issue please ask a new question with details pertaining to your problem. If you feel this question is not abandoned, please flag the question explaining that. Jan 6, 2013 at 7:56

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In a terminal, run

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

Then,

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
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  • I tried those before, but perhaps not in that order. Still, it did nothing, it also said it updated nothing and such. Ideas..?
    – Chris
    Feb 14, 2012 at 1:21

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