Friday, 12 September 2014

Solving the Ubuntu Error

As mentioned in the earlier post, I was getting errors installing packages. This was universal across any sort of packages, whether trying to install via CD or downloaded. This issue was also consistent on different builds of Ubuntu that I was trying.

The first step that most online forums were suggesting to try "apt-get update". Unfortunately this also brought errors and had no resolution.

As I was running version 13.04 (as 14+ only supports 64 bit), I decided to try the last .Iso release of 13.10. Once installed, I was successfully able to run the "apt-get update" as well as install packages without error. It appears that there's a problem updating slightly older versions.
I was then successfully able to also install a GUI using "apt-get install ubuntu-desktop".

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