I just installed this Distro on an older Lenovo Y550 that I refreshed by installing a 250GB SSD drive and have been playing around with various Linux Distros and it seems somethings are not working correctly with each distro I try using. I have another stable enviroment on a Gigabyte Brix that I like (Mint 17.1-Mate), but have this laptop that I use to play around with and experiment.
I presume this might not be the best place to ask questions for these obscure Distros, but maybe someone can point me in the right direction. I'm not a Linux newb, but am not a developer so I can get into trouble by doing things that I probably shouldn't be doing, but I have the benefit of being able to wipe out and start all over.
So, after installing this on the laptop, wanted to check out the software settings and discovered it fails to open. The Synaptic Package manager opens, but I cannot view the Repositories, it will start scanning, but then fail to show the repolist.
Here's what the /etc/apt/source.list.d has:
family@family-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y550:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ ls -lstr
total 28
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Oct 23 12:13 gnome3-team-ubuntu-gnome3-utopic.list.save
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156 Oct 23 12:13 gnome3-team-ubuntu-gnome3-staging-utopic.list.save
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132 Oct 23 12:13 ricotz-ubuntu-testing-utopic.list
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Oct 23 12:13 gnome3-team-ubuntu-gnome3-utopic.list
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156 Oct 23 12:13 gnome3-team-ubuntu-gnome3-staging-utopic.list
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Jan 3 11:42 google-chrome.list
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112 Jan 6 00:36 libdvdcss.list
Here's what is in the /etc/apt/source.list:
#deb cdrom:[ExTiX 15.1 - Release amd64 (20150102)]/ utopic main multiverse restricted universe
# See
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic main restricted
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic-updates main restricted
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic-updates main restricted
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic universe
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic universe
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic-updates universe
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic-updates universe
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic multiverse
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic multiverse
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic-updates multiverse
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic-updates multiverse
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic-security main restricted
deb-src
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic-security main restricted
deb
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic-security universe
deb-src
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic-security universe
deb
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic-security multiverse
deb-src
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic-security multiverse
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb
http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu utopic partner
# deb-src
http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu utopic partner
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Ubuntu's
## 'extras' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
## developers who want to ship their latest software.
# deb
http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic main
# deb-src
http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic main