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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Issue with update manager

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On 2013-08-23, at 10:00 AM, Paul Belanger <paul [ dot ] belanger [ at ] polybeacon [ dot ] com> wrote:

> 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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