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KDE won't update

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:47 am
by travalon
I just switched to LM13 KDE and everything seems beautiful. Except, when I tried to update the first time I got the mintupdate pkg fine. After that when I click the icon it tells me there are 494 updates and when i click update, everything just disappears icon and all. I can still run the pkg mgr so I know it's (update) not runing in the back ground. I then went to the cli and here is the error:

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Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org precise/free Translation-en_US                                                                                                           
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org precise/free Translation-en                                                                                                              
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org precise/non-free Translation-en_US                                                                                                       
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org precise/non-free Translation-en                                                                                                          
Get:17 http://packages.linuxmint.com maya/import i386 Packages [41.7 kB]                                                                                                   
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com maya/import TranslationIndex                                                                                                             
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com maya/main TranslationIndex                                                                                                               
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com maya/upstream TranslationIndex                                                                                                           
Err http://packages.linuxmint.com maya/import Translation-en_US                                                                                                            
  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Err http://packages.linuxmint.com maya/import Translation-en
  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Err http://packages.linuxmint.com maya/main Translation-en_US
  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Err http://packages.linuxmint.com maya/main Translation-en 
  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Err http://packages.linuxmint.com maya/upstream Translation-en_US
  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Err http://packages.linuxmint.com maya/upstream Translation-en
  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:
Fetched 1,118 kB in 2min 30s (7,419 B/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/import/i18n/Translation-en_US  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/import/i18n/Translation-en  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/main/i18n/Translation-en_US  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/main/i18n/Translation-en  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/upstream/i18n/Translation-en_US  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/maya/upstream/i18n/Translation-en  Unable to connect to packages.linuxmint.com:http:

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
travalon@KDE-Laptop ~/Documents $ 
I found a couple of threads a month or so old but my error didn't match theirs.
Do I need to add a new software source?

Thx to all

Re: KDE won't update

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:04 pm
by zerozero
see this guide here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=122213 to switch to a faster mirror

Re: KDE won't update

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:54 am
by travalon
+1 x 2 to zerozero