Effective the turn of this year the Synaptic Package Manager for Lubuntu 14.04 on ALL my computers STOPPED WORKING!!! (I have 5 computers, all with matching Lubuntu OS's.)
I still get updates of a sort--that's all.
I cannot reload without errors like the following:
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/Release Unable to find expected entry 'universe/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages Hash Sum mismatch
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
I get similar readings on ALL my computers.
I really do NOT want to have to find a new OS that will work on ALL my comps--it took me too long to find Lubuntu. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
I tried to post it, but this forum considers my reply to be "links" and will not let me post it--I used the Ubuntu Repository Generator (very carefully, I'm no novice).
Afterwards I had far less errors, but still errors--the errors I have left were in the ORIGINAL install!!!
I have scoured the Net for the past 3 weeks trying to find an answer--NOTHING!!!
OK, I have copied what you sent into the repo list (deleting everything that was there FIRST)--(I know what I am doing here--just not how to solve my problem)
After I did that I ran sudo apt-get update--this was what came up;
Failed to fetch http: //us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/Release Unable to find expected entry 'restricted/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
Failed to fetch http: //us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages Hash Sum mismatch
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
REMEMBER I copied exactly what you sent and put it in the file all by itself and this is what I got......
UPDATE: I partially solved the problem, but still have the problem....
I went to Repositories in Synaptic and un-checked "Community-maintained free and open-source software (universe)" then un-checked "Proprietary drivers for devices (restricted)" then also, "Software restricted by copyright or legal issues"
THEN, I ran update again--this is what I got left:
Failed to fetch http: //us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages Hash Sum mismatch
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
There is NOT MUCH left to UN-CHECK!!!!!
Now your beginning to see my problem--where do I look to find this "binary" thing and get RID OF IT?!
NEW UPDATE-- I copied my repository list...
deb http: // us .archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main
deb http: // us .archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main
deb http: // security .ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main
deb http: // archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner
deb-src http:// archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner
When I try to update I get the following:
Failed to fetch http: // us.archive .ubuntu .com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages Hash Sum mismatch
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
QUESTION--I need to know WHERE to look for this erroneous data so I can DELETE IT!!!
NEW INFORMATION: On the advice I found elsewhere I ran the following--I don't know what this means, but I think you might....
x@x-Inspiron-8600:~$ ping -c 3 www.ubunu.com
PING www.ubunu.com (69.172.201.208) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- www.ubunu.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2015ms
x@x-Inspiron-8600:~$