On 03/18/2014 12:17 PM, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> What happens if you run an update from a terminal? These are the two
> relevant commands:
>
> sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for rsteff:
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/'http could not be found.

That probably has something to do with it. :-)

I Googled the error message and found:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/165676/how-do-i-fix-a-e-the-method-driver-usr-lib-apt-methods-http-could-not-be-foun

The second recommended fix was to check /etc/apt/sources.list and,

     Make sure there are no quotation marks ' ' or " ":

followed by an example. Sure enough, one of the ppas had single quotes 
around it. I took out those quotes and reran sudo apt-tet update. It was 
unable to get a lock. I ran Update Manager and it worked. Then I ran 
sudo apt-get update again and, while it didn't do anything other than 
check, it did that and completed.

> sudo apt-get upgrade

IIRC this would try to take me from 12.04 to something newer, which I 
don't want to do.

Thanks for the ideas.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens

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