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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Issue with update manager

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> wrote:
> I've been having an issue with one of my machines that is running Linux Mint
> Olivia, which is based on Ubuntu Raring (13.04). The apt-get update
> equivalent (or that run in a terminal) gives failures with
>
> Failed to fetch
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring-security/main/
>
> and related to following strings.
>
> http://security.ubuntu.com raring-security Release.gpg
>
> This causes update to fail.
>
> There are many (misleading) posts about things to do on the net, none of
> which have worked for me. I think the gpg signatures might be the issue, and
> I'm tempted to simply delete them from the /etc/apt/ area, which in 13.04 is
> no longer set up with apt.conf but has a directory apt.conf.d that is much
> more complex to sort out.
>
> Anyone with experience of this problem?
>
No issues here.  Maybe something is stale. What do your apt keys look like?

$ sudo apt-key list

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