Update Manger "failed"

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dr_zin

Update Manger "failed"

Post by dr_zin »

Its the little thing that matter.
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W:Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/debian/Release  Unable to find expected entry  universe/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
, E:Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
$ **** /etc/apt/sources.list...

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import universe
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib
## Depôt MultiSystem
deb http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot all main
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vincent

Re: Update Manger "failed"

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import universe
Get rid of "universe", as there is no universe repository for Linux Mint, so that it looks like this:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
To edit your sources.list file:

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gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Indeed, it's the little things that matter, especially when the user goes and unintentionally breaks stuff. The "universe" entry is not there by default, nor should it be there, so either you messed up your sources.list yourself and you had a 3rd party tool mess it up for you. *shrug*
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Re: Update Manger "failed"

Post by rivenathos »

As a suggestion, you will probably get faster updates/downloads if you set your country code.

If you are in the USA:

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
Notice where to insert the country code in the above example.
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dr_zin

Re: Update Manger "failed"

Post by dr_zin »

Ok, Cool thank you. This can be marked solved.
vincent

Re: Update Manger "failed"

Post by vincent »

dr_zin wrote:Ok, Cool thank you. This can be marked solved.
You can do that yourself, by editing the title.
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