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Unable to update ubuntu

Asked by E squared

Im running Ubuntu 12.04 and when I try to update it through the Update Manager it says "Failed to dowlonad repository information." Followed by "W:Failed to fetch http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/dists/precise-getdeb/Release.gpg Unable to connect to archive.getdeb.net:http:
, W:Failed to fetch http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/dists/precise-getdeb/apps/binary-i386/Packages Unable to connect to archive.getdeb.net:http:
, W:Failed to fetch http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/dists/precise-getdeb/apps/i18n/Translation-en Unable to connect to archive.getdeb.net:http:
, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead."

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

The servers at getdeb are not very reliable in my experience. When they are up they will get hit, otherwise they will be down.

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E squared (ep-hier) said : 		#2

so just wait it out? or are there other servers/repositories I can switch to?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

According to http://www.ubuntugeek.com/getdeb-mirror-site.html the getdeb-provided packages are mirrored at http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/getdeb/ubuntu (no idea if that server is current or not).

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

echo "deb http://archive.ubuntugames.org ubuntugames main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntugames.list
sudo apt-key adv --recv-key --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com D6BD7D4144A31152
sudo apt-get update

You can now install lots of games :)

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