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my son has this laptop that he earned doing tutoring and it runs on ubuntu 12.04 for a while it has been telling me that firefox can't find the server and it also say please run package manager to get in terminal error opening the cache encounterd a section with no package header it won't allow me to stay connected please help!!!

English is not my native language, may be for that reason i can't fully understand you... but i want to help you, so i will need some help from you.


let me rephrase your situation to let's see if i understand:

we got a laptop running ubuntu 12.04
firefox can't find <any> server

the next part really needs a ',' or a dot, or something because i can't understand it, it's like a lot of affirmations/situations on une single line and y can't understand you on that.


Ubuntu is a distribution, whish the 12.04 version is the released on April 2012, and it's a Long Term Support (LTS) release, so you will get support from Ubuntu community for a very long time.


You are having connectivity troubles, but i need more info here to help you:

a) do you know how to use a linux or Ubuntu system?
b) if a is yes: do you know how to use the shell / command line interface?
c) do you know if is there any other program besides Firefox that can connect to the Internet?


best regards

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no to all of your questions sorry !!!!

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a)no i do not b)no c)no sorry i am in minnesota and i can only speak english and i don't know how this system works very new to cpu.

Let see if we can narrow this down a little.

First questions:
How are you getting the the internet wireless connections or a patch cord.

If the answer is a wireless connection, try connecting with a patch cord.

Secord question:
Do you know how to get to a command line (terminal)