🚀 go-pugleaf

On Aug 22, 10:38 am, James C <enough.alre...@no.more.spam.please>
wrote:
> On 22/08/08 09:50, Ivan wrote:
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> > On Aug 5, 7:56 pm, gary <glra...@tpg.com.au> wrote:
> >> when i use update manager this message pops up
> >> Could not download all repository indexes
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> >> The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted
> >> because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed
> >> index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your
> >> network connection and ensure the repository address in the preferences
> >> is correct.
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> >> I have no idea what it means and i don,t know how to sort it out i have
> >> very limited computer skills and am fairly new to Ubuntu it started
> >> doing this about 2 weeks ago i do not know how to check network
> >> connection or what repository address means  or where the preferences are?
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> >> thanks again in advance Gary
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> > Gary:
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> > May I suggest one thing:
> > OPEN A TERMINAL.
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> > Try using
> > # apt-get update
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> > If it fails, try
> > # apt-get update --fix-missing
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> > If THAT fails, post here your sources.list file.
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> Hey, that's 4 things!  :-)
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> > If you really want to learn to use the linux operating system, you'll
> > have to do so without using fancy applications to do things for you
> > and get your hands dirty with the command line.
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> Yes, but... you can do a lot on Ubuntu without using the command line,
> and some mistakes are easier to make using the command line
> (e.g., typing "wget -o" instead of "wget -O").- Hide quoted text -
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Yes, but it's easier to use the one resource than having to open 5
different applications to do different things.