"can't fetch from extra.mint. repository ..." error message in mint 17.2

Deus Absconditus · 09-09-2015, 06:43 AM

Get the above error message when I go:
sudo apt-get update && upgrade
in a new install of mint 17.2

I used to know this, but what extra repos do i need and where do I get them.

thx in advance,
D.ab

bigrigdriver · 09-09-2015, 11:44 AM

Code:

sudo apt-get update && upgrade

This will be interpreted as two commands:
sudo apt-get update
upgrade

As you can see, upgrade by itself will generate an error unless you have an application named "upgrade".

Try this instead:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Deus Absconditus · 09-09-2015, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigrigdriver

Code:

sudo apt-get update && upgrade

This will be interpreted as two commands:
sudo apt-get update
upgrade

As you can see, upgrade by itself will generate an error unless you have an application named "upgrade".

Try this instead:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

thanks kindly bigrigdriver;
I've stood where I'm standing - at the bottom of mount linux - with a passion to make the assault, about half dozen times in my life;
breathing the sharp air at base camp is bracing; looking up through the clouds and getting the occasional peak at the summit is positively vertigo-making;
then I make the first little stumbling baby step and fall on my arse and it reminds me of the adage:
"if it aint hard to do, it wouldn't be worth doing"

:-)