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Update Manager failed to fetch translation index
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:26 am
by Max707
Whenever i reload or update the repos, i always get failed to fetch translation index, translation-en_us, and translation-en. I have some images and my sources.list.
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deb http://less.cogeco.net/pub/linuxmint-packages/ debian main upstream import
deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
Re: Update Manager failed to fetch translation index
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:50 pm
by dawgdoc
If you try
and get a message similar to
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Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/packages.linuxmint.com_dists_debian_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
See if this will solve it for you.
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sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update
The update will be a bit slower but then normal there after
Re: Update Manager failed to fetch translation index
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:20 am
by spacebison
I had that same problem. It seems that because my university's network uses a walled garden to authorize use of the internet, it over writes the files with the walled garden's splash page. Deleting the affected files seems to be working.
http://spacebison.com/files/updatelmde.png
Re: Update Manager failed to fetch translation index
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 7:02 am
by filozofio
I seem to have a similar problem after todays update. But this is not solving the issue.
Re: Update Manager failed to fetch translation index
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 8:05 am
by Telecaster72
I did not do any updates today since i track the squeeze repos and i have this too, so i dont think it has anything to do with the update, it gets stuck at
99% [Connecting to packages.linuxmint.com (109.234.106.47)
It looks to me it might be the server.
P.S There is another recent thread with this topic, merge topics?
Edit: I changed the Linux mint Software repo to
http://linux-mint.froonix.org and now it works as it should for me. i guess the main server are having some issues.
Re: Update Manager failed to fetch translation index
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 3:05 pm
by filozofio
Yes, the two posts are about the same problem.
The servers seem to work properly now.
But I still get the same messages with the Ignored translation indexes.
¿What can I do?
Re: Update Manager failed to fetch translation index
Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 11:20 pm
by bwat47
When I run apt-get update I get all those ignored translation indexes as well, but I get no errors when updating.
Re: Update Manager failed to fetch translation index
Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 11:36 pm
by dawgdoc
Clem posted a blog yesterday stating there was a problem with the Mint servers. If you are still getting the error messages, try the terminal commands I posted above. You may want to switch to a different server, a mirror closer to you before running sudo apt-get update or before refreshing MintUpdate.
Re: Update Manager failed to fetch translation index
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 2:46 pm
by filozofio
Yes the problem was solved then
