The apt-get update gave me a long string of results. Some of the text in etc.sources.list seems to describe this as an unsupported release.
My notes indicate that we installed Ubuntu 16.04 Power PC. The Ubuntu support page does not seem to refer to the Power PC release separately. I'm not sure how to get Ubuntu to tell me specifically what version it is. The computer, by the way, is an IMac G5 with Power PC processor, vintage about 2005, which had become largely unusable due to the very outdated Safari browser. Apple abandoned support about 5 years ago. Other browsers available for this computer, such as firefox, are old versions that do not function very well on today's internet either. The old Safari does, however, function well enough on Youtube, which Ubuntu does not. A friend who is a programmer helped me install Ubuntu. He divided the hard drive into sectors with MacOS on one and Ubuntu on the other. Thanks for your help. Harold On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:57 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, November 12, 2016 02:29 AM, Harold Cheyney wrote: > >> This still gets me back to the "failed to download" message regardless >> of which source I select. There are 2 sources listed "main server" and >> "main server for united states" >> > > Can you try > > sudo apt-get update > > in a terminal and see if it works? > > Please also show us the contents of your /etc/sources.list file? > > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm > an/listinfo/xubuntu-users >
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