Computing Staff
  • 0

How To Repair Apt Update Error

  • 0

Unfortunately I am with am with a very slow EVDO (Huawei) Internet connection.

Recently I switched from win 10 64 bit To Linux Mint 18. I managed to install some programs that were not in the original setup, with the help of the program’s instructions. Now the inbuilt Firefox tells me I am critically outdated. I knew that there was an automatic update, but that gives me the following error. In the manual I cannot find a solution. How can I repair the following error

Process ID 1671

Log File: tmp/mintUpdate/h9k1pr62

01.19test5011246:55 ++ Launching mintUpdate
01.19test5011246:55 ++ Starting refresh
01.19test5011246:55 ++ Initial refresh will happen in 10 minutes, 0 hours and 0 days
01.19test5011246:55 ++ Error in checkAPT.py, could not refresh the list of updates
01.19test45418123:05 ++ MintUpdate is in tray mode, performing initial refresh
01.19test45418123:05 ++ Starting refresh (including refreshing the APT cache)
01.19test45418123:05 ++ Auto-refresh will happen in 0 minutes, 2 hours and 0 days
01.19test45418123:05 ++ Error in checkAPT.py, could not refresh the list of updates

Thanks for help

Share

1 Answer

  1. This error can happen when fetching the latest repositories during ” apt-get update ” was interrupted, and a subsequent ” apt-get update ” is not able to resume the interrupted fetch. In this case, remove the content in /var/lib/apt/lists before retrying ” apt-get update “.

    • 0