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RE: I am having trouble updating Linux Mint -- Can anybody help?

in #linux • 6 years ago

Is this a live OS?
or have you installed mint on a system?

If you have installed make sure you are a sudoer, normally sudoers are set during installation in ubuntu based distros.

If you are a sudoer (i.e. you have gone through the standard installation process to create the user mint) then use the command,

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
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     6 years ago 

    Yes like a dummy i installed it on hard disk and now I am stuck with a computer I can't update.

      sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
 [sudo] password for jesuscoins: 
  E: Type '**' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
  E: The list of sources could not be read.

    This is what it printed out after trying ..

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       6 years ago 

      can you send the output of command

      cat /etc/apt/sources.list
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         6 years ago 

        Well it just printed out a bunch of encryption which was too large to put into this text,, but this is what it says at the end,

            deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 18.3 _Sylvia_ - Release amd64 20171124]/ xenial contrib main non-free
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           6 years ago 
          PCME ~ # sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade


          E: Type '**' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.

          I cannot update or uprgade OS at all.

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             6 years ago 

            The /etc/apt/sources.list file should only contain lines starting with # deb cdrom:[ but in your case this line is the last line and all entry before this line is some random stuff. That is why the error says line E: Type '**' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (note: line 1).

            So lets try to clean up the unwanted stuff and put the last line to the line 1.

            1. switch to root sudo -s
            2. make a copy of /etc/apt/sources.list 
              cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup
            3. edit sources.list 
              echo "#deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 18.3 _Sylvia_ - Release amd64 20171124]/ xenial contrib main non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list
            4. update the system 
              apt update && apt upgrade
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             6 years ago 

            Wow thank you so much!!! this worked and I am extremely relieved! You're the best @bitbase

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               6 years ago 

              We should not give up on anything

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                 6 years ago 

                I agree! Oh, should I run updates under root or not..?

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                   6 years ago 

                  Don't use root. Keep with sudo. Use root only if it is very compulsary and you have no other way of doing it (Like we edit the sources.list file).

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                     6 years ago 

                    So this is what I got.. a few err messages with it.

                    apt update && apt upgrade

                    Err:1 http://packages.domain.com xenial InRelease
                    Could not connect to packages.domain.com:80 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
                    Ign:2 http://mirrors.evowise.com/linuxmint/packages sylvia InRelease
                    Hit:3 http://mirrors.evowise.com/linuxmint/packages sylvia Release
                    Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]
                    Hit:5 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
                    Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
                    Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]
                    Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
                    Fetched 216 kB in 1s (134 kB/s)
                    Reading package lists... Done
                    Building dependency tree
                    Reading state information... Done
                    All packages are up to date.
                    W: Failed to fetch http://packages.domain.com/dists/xenial/InRelease Could not connect to packages.domain.com:80 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
                    W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
                    Reading package lists... Done
                    Building dependency tree
                    Reading state information... Done
                    Calculating upgrade... Done
                    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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                       6 years ago 

                      Can you check if this still shows error?

                      Also give me the output of cat /etc/apt/apt.conf

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                         6 years ago 
                         jesuscoins@PCME ~ $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
 cat: /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory
 jesuscoins@PCME ~ $ clear
 jesuscoins@PCME ~ $ sudo -s
 [sudo] password for jesuscoins: 
 PCME ~ # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
 cat: /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory
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                           6 years ago 

                          I can't figure out what the problem is. Keep me posted on any other problem you have about Linux, because it also help me develop my skills.

                          I'll try to find the source of this error and update you.

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                             6 years ago 

                            Thank you!

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                               6 years ago 

                              you are most welcome

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