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James Baker
Asked: 2018-08-21 03:56:45 +0800 CST

Ican't update/upgrade with apt or apt-get

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Whenever I try to update it gets stuck at 32% every time and fails.

someone@somewhere:~/$ sudo apt update
Ign:1 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily InRelease
Get:2 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily Release [6,596 B]                                                                                                                                               
Ign:3 http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1604/x86_64  InRelease                                                                                                                 
Ign:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                                                                                                                                               
Get:5 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily Release.gpg [473 B]                                                                                                                                 
Hit:6 http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1604/x86_64  Release                                                                                                          
Hit:7 http://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise InRelease                                                                                                                                    
Hit:8 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                                                          
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]                                          
Hit:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-stable/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                      
Hit:12 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease                                                                                              
Hit:13 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release                                                                                                
Hit:15 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                                           
Get:16 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]                                                         
Hit:18 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                           
Hit:19 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                           
Get:14 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]                                   
Hit:20 http://ppa.launchpad.net/wireshark-dev/stable/ubuntu xenial InRelease         
Ign:21 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages        
Ign:22 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages
Ign:23 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Translation-en
Get:24 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [320 kB]
Get:25 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [227 kB]
Ign:26 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
32% [Connecting to ca.archive.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1560:8001::11)]

It's preventing me from upgrading packages or updating the package list.

package-management updates upgrade apt restricted

2 Answers

  1. Whenever you are unsure what may be the problem with apt or apt-get you can check the log files for the details. This is rather a general answer, but it should provide you the clue.

    By default apt-get (apt) logs can be found in /var/log/apt/term.log, if you haven't set otherwise in the apt-get configuration file.

    You may also look in other logs files like /var/log/apt/history.log.

    File /var/log/dpkg.log is also valid to check because apt-get is based on dpkg.

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  2. Best Answer

    Based on some of the other succestions around /etc/apt/sources.list I started playing aroundin there and found that if I changed the server from ca.archive.ubuntu.com to us.archive.ubuntu.com it suddenly worked. Possible problem with the Canadian server?

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