Questions about the graphical interface update-manager, as opposed to the command line apt-get.
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Ubuntu Software update check size is unreasonably large
When I check for updates, I see that it is using my internet at full capacity (128Kb/s) for about 3 minutes. That is something like 25MB of data downloaded -- just to know if there are updates for my ...
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i am using ubuntu 12.10. am a new user and i have problem with the software updater. this is what i am getting. please help [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I fix a 404 Error using a PPA?
W:Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ppa/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to ...
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unable to launch update manager [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I remove a malformed line from my sources.list?
Could not initialize the package information.
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package ...
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What is the command line equivalent for the update manager?
When I do
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Sometimes the Ubuntu GUI Update Manager will still have some items left. e.g. “Complete Generic Linuux kernel”.
I know there's also sudo apt-get ...
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Update manager package list or status file could not be opened
Could not initialize the package information
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the ...
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update showing error [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I fix a “Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update?
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
information.
Please report ...
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How do I update only one specific application
I have chromium installed. I want to update it and only it. Is there any way to do that?
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Error msg on starting upgrade manager [duplicate]
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
E:Encountered a ...
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2answers
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“Unmet Dependencies” problem when trying apt-get install
Anytime I try to install python packages using the command:
sudo apt-get install python-package
I get the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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update manager version 12.04
I see lots of refernces to using the update manager, but where on earth do I find this??
Cannot see anything at all relating to it on my version of Ubuntu 12.04
Thank you
Lorganz
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Failed system update
Ubuntu 12.04 - I ran system update again today. Again, it failed to update 28Mb out of >120Mb of files. How do I get it to update the remaining files? It claims that there is an internet connection ...
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Update manager shows errors and software center can only be opened through terminal with some errors in terminal [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install software or upgrade from old unsupported release?
Whenever I open update manager it shows the following error:
And when I click on software-center it ...
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Update Manager not opening: “Encountered a section with no Package: header” error [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I fix a “Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update?
The following error is shown when I try to run the update manager:
Could not initialize ...
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Error messages while running update manager
Running 12.04 32 bit Ubuntu. I have updates that need to be installed. When I try to download and install the updates using the update manager, I get the following errors:
Failed to fetch ...
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Why do I get: Failed to download repository information! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I fix a 404 Error using a PPA?
So I am getting this error when I try to run the system updater:
Failed to download repository information
Check you internet ...
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after update “the disk drive / is not ready yet or not present?”
I've been messing around and I feel like I'm just opening a can a of worms. Not sure If I'm getting closer to solution and I feel like I'm just discovering more problems and I'm not sure where to ...
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Why does Software Center not start and Updates fail?
Software centre doesn't even open. When I want to Update software i get these errors:
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
Could not initialize the package ...
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I can't update Ubuntu 2 months now
So when running sudo apt-get update
i get errors:
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
W: ...
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How can I get the public key for ubuntu 10.04 update manager?
Update manager fails with a dialog box that says
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release: The following signatures
couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
...
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Iam not getting auto update to 12.10 from 11.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I skip over releases?
Iam Currently using Ubuntu 11.10 on my HP netbook, iam not getting any update information to 12.10 in my update manager. is there any solution ...
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Invalid url:`var/lib/lock/dpkg/lock`given,existing No `:`in the uri
This is the error from the lock. From Perl I get: you have not cofigured a urlist for CPAN mirrors/blocked urlist.pm yaml not installed. The error console is full of: unknown property
word-break, ...
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Why does update manager not work when PPA is unavailbale? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I fix a 404 Error using a PPA?
I have several PPAs in my package list.
Apparently, some of these are not accessible anymore after the last system upgrade.
Now ...
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Update manager updates the kernel mod but not the nvidia client, how to get them to match?
12.04 update on 2012-12-22 updated the kernel to 3.2.0-35-generic and attempted to update nvidia driver to nvidia-experimental-310 310.14-0ubuntu0.1 but did not.
Update on 2013-01-06 update manager ...
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Error Message when trying to check for updates [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I fix a “Failed to download package files” error?
I get the following error message whenever I try to check for updates:
W:Failed to fetch ...
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Failed to download repository information in update manager no data 1 nodata 2 [duplicate]
Check your Internet connection.
details:
E:GPG error: http://linux.ntuoss.org precise Release: The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2
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12.04 LTS, update-manager behaves contradictory?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS two weeks ago by downloading the iso image, creating a startup usb stick from this image, booting the live system and finally installing. I have been working ...
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Requires installation of untrusted packages
Update manager proposes me to install libgdata-common and libgdata13 and then itself bans installation with message Requires installation of untrusted packages.
How to make it either not propose ...
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I can't update Steam [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the easiest way to resolve apt-get BADSIG GPG errors?
When I am trying to update my computer the error appears like this...
An image is better than words....
I ...
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1answer
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Can't update error E type libe 58
Can't open update manger,package manager or software center.
The following code appears when I attempt to launch the above:
Could not initialize the package information
An unresolvable problem ...
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1answer
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Import error when running update manager
It seems like I am getting some error related to Python, but I am not sure why I am getting it. When I ran Software Updater (in 12.10) from unity, it didn't even fire up.
When I did this from the ...
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Update manager - Failed to load package list [closed]
Come to do some updates in 12.10 today and get the error
E:Malformed Description-md5 line; includes invalid character 'd72e12fa21290d21a54b'4e8480abad1', E:Malformed Description-md5 line; includes ...
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Can't update using system updater
This is the message it gives me:
W:Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch ...
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update manager problem [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I fix this “E:Type ‘*’ is not known on line * in source list …” update error?
I'm new to Ubuntu and using 12.04 LTS. There's something wrong with the update ...
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Failed to fetch PPA Error (Deluge) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I fix a 404 Error using a PPA?
How do I fix this error?
W:Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ppa/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources ...
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Update Manager doesn't show any updates
I am running the Update Manager (in Ubuntu 12.04) for the first time in several months. When checking for updates, the Update Manager doesn't find any, and returns the following error message:
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unknown external display after recent update?
Last week I installed recommended updates on ubuntu 12.04 LTS, all well and good but since this update I have encountered 2 problems:
1 - external display no longer works, system can be seen to cycle ...
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Failed to download repository information Check your Internet connection
I have recently received the following error message when I try to check for updates:
I have tried the various solutions from previous posts but none seem to change the outcome. Any help will be ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu 12.04, broken update manager, phpmyadmin, and many other things [closed]
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with XFCE
My story is a more than a week long, but from today I have lot of strange problems with system and apache2, mysql, phpmyadmin, update manager, and some other.
I had ...
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Update Manager got stuck (but not frozen) while installing downloaded updates. What should I do?
I have just gotten my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop computer reassembled after a trip back home and connected it to my parent's wireless Internet connection. The connection seems quite shaky (disconnects ...
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Gnome-shell installed through updates
Recently, I noticed that update manager was installing gnome-shell.
To be sure that is the case, I tried logging in with the Gnome option and I got to the Gnome 3 window manager.
Trying to remove it ...
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Does System Update also update the OS?
If I update my Ubuntu 12.04 through Update Manager, does it update to the Ubuntu 12.10?
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Update manager doesn't work [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I fix a “Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update?
Every time I try to update my system, Update Manager comes up with the following error ...
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1answer
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error lunching update manager
I get following error when lunching update manager
E:Malformed line 70 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
can you help me ?
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1answer
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Update Manager error 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I fix the GPG error “NO_PUBKEY”?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04. When attempting to run my Update Manager, it doesn't allow any of the updates to be loaded. Under ...
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Can't open Software Center or Update Manager
When I try to (not from terminal) the following error message opens up:
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
Please report this bug against the ...
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Update Manager Ubuntu 12.10 (1) Failed to fetch cdrom: (2) Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonls/ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I fix a 404 Error using a PPA?
Please guide how to solve problem described below:
ERROR received while running Update Manager in UBUNTU 12.10:
W:Failed to ...
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How do I fix update-manager exception crash? [closed]
For some reason, maybe because of a manual shutdown of my computer, update manager has stopped working.
When I hit the "Update" button, the program freezes, turns grey, and I get a "Report a problem" ...
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Problem with MergeList when trying to check for updates [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I fix a “Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update?
Translated
Am new in Ubuntu, but for a couple of days, every time I try to check for updates ...
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12.10 will not update via apt-get update or update manager
Here are the specific log notes: http://pastebin.com/vigsZUZK
I checked the repository myself and there is no independent component but I do not know what needs to be changed if I can be answered ...
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How to stop updates nagging me in 11.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Disable Ubuntu Update Manager’s new version warning
I'm running on 11.10. My computer keeps on bugging me about 12.04, but I don't want it to. Please help as it is ...
