I would start on command line: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade And if you still have problems, post the errors you get.
Tomas On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 21:57 Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > When I run Software Updater on one of my Ubuntu 18.04 machines (ENU-1). > In April, 2018, I installed Ubuntu MATE 18.04. At some point, alas not > documented, I switched to XFCE. In May, 2019, I installed Xubuntu 18.04 > on my other desktop machine (ENU-2), and migrated to it for daily use. > ENU-1 just sits over on the other desk and quietly runs. I never got > around to moving my in-house web setup to ENU-2, so ENU-1 is doing > something. But usually I just forget that it's there. > > Today I wanted to change something on an in-house web page and looked at > its monitor. There was a notice of software upgrades being available. I > did the change I needed to do, and then tried to run Software Updater. I > get an error message: > > Failed to download repository information > Check your Internet connection. > > The Internet connection is fine. > > The error dialog box has a button for Settings. After stepping through > all the tabs, but not seeing anything useful, I closed the Settings box, > and the main Software Updater box filled up with all the stuff that > needs updating. I click on Install Now, the box briefly changes to the > one that shows progress of the install, but then disappears. No further > error message. > > Where do I start to troubleshoot this? > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
