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 -- Paul Belanger | PolyBeacon, Inc. Jabber: paul [ dot ] belanger [ at ] polybeacon [ dot ] com | IRC: pabelanger (Freenode) Github: https://github.com/pabelanger | Twitter: https://twitter.com/pabelanger