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Force Ubuntu to only download updates form canonical.com mirrors

How do I force a Ubuntu machine to only download updates from official canonical.com mirrors? Right now it sometimes downloads from non canonical mirrors, which get flagged in our network monitoring ...
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Impossible to get information from update manager

When I press the button "check" to find updates, I always get this error: Failed to get information from repository W:Failed to fetch ...
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update manager is not woring Failed to download repository information [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Update manager generates 404 error while attempting update. Will not update My update manager is not working and showing this message Failed to download repository ...
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Failed to download repository information [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I fix a 404 Error using a PPA? When i clicked check this error message came up. But it does not come up when update manager strarts automatically. When you open ...
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Whenever I run update manager I get this: Failed to fetch [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I fix “malformed line” errors in sources.list? When I update i get the following: W: Failed to fetch ...
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apt-get keeps saying to check Internet, while I have a good connection

I need to check if I have updates for Ubuntu. I think it is 12.04 As you can see this is what it says: Failed to download repository information Check your Internet connection. Details: W:Failed ...
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Can't update ubuntu 12.04: Could not initialize the package information [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: “Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update I'm running ubuntu 12.04. When I open the update-manager I get the following error: When I run ...
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How can I determine which software repositories are in active use?

I added some custom repositories sometimes ago. How can I determine, which software I have installed is from them? I want to delete unused repos.
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Failed to download repository information(pidgin-developers ppa) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I fix a 404 Error using a PPA? Got this error when i tried to check for updates from my update manager,its showing me about some updates but gives me this error ...
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Is it there any advantage to unticking the “Source Code” entry of a repository?

Above is a screenshot showing an enabled PPA from the ayatana-scrollbar-team. There are two entries, one with a "(Source Code)" label and one without. If installing ubuntu on a computer where the ...
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Issues after Marlin file browser installation?

Someday ago I tried the Marlin file browser (a nice crossover between thunar, nautilus and windows explorer) from elementary-dev PPA. Then I've encountered some troubles in updating packages. ...
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Why can't I get into my repositories? [closed]

Upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 by mistake and am having problems with some of my programs. They either don't work or they disappear from view on the screen. The Repositories menu item in Synaptic ...
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Why does BADSIG/GPG error keep appearing again and again? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to fix GPG error/BADSIG while running apt-get update? I'm most frustrated at not being able to get rid of the BADSIG/GPG errors I get while running apt-get update. ...
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Ubuntu Extras keyring error [duplicate]

Recently I got lots of GPG errors and tried the following methods at various stages: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 3E5C1192 sudo apt-get install -reinstall ...
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What does Ign mean in update manager?

When I run update from the terminal, I get the following list where many repositories are shown with "Ign". Does it mean the update manager will always ignore updates from those repositories? Apart ...
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What do these apt commands do?

What do these commands do? Acquire::http::No-Cache=True -o Acquire::BrokenProxy=true update Acquire::http::Max-Age "0"
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How to fix GPG error/BADSIG while running apt-get update? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the easiest way to resolve apt-get BADSIG GPG errors? Of late, I've been getting this long list of errors every time I run apt-get update from the terminal. ...