Xubuntu Failure to download extra data files

What you can do to fix the error is to change the server to Main Server and you can continue with the updates smoothly. Save your change. It will update the software cache. Run the Update Manager again. The update should work just fine now.

A similar update error is failed to download repository information which can be fixed easily as well. I hope this tutorial helped you to fix the failed to download package files error in Ubuntu.

Any questions or suggestions are always welcomed. Also a movie buff with a soft corner for film noir. This would be a great guide for getting your updater to work…… if the cache updater he mentioned worked.

Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. It's the same thing that would happen if you click the "run this action now" button in the GUI. Which I think appeared to work Ubuntu I had the same problem, and instead of fixing it with the GUI, I simply did sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer and sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer from Terminal. The problem was that my internet connection was unstable, but after doing this a couple times I got the entire file downloaded and installed.

Correction: next day error message came back, tried the purge method and re-installed flashplugin, error message appeared immediately. Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

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Asked 7 years, 2 months ago. Active 4 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 22k times. Today after finishing the update i got update information I have tried clicking on run action now, but by that nothing happens only terminal opens up and then after minute it automatically closes down.

Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Freddy Freddy 1, 5 5 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges. Is that Coldplay on the wallpaper? Same thing will happen if I use the wget in terminal to download the package: wget downloads.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response It will fail again. The wired thing is that I can download the font package from a browser like Chrome, and run the following command to fix the font problem: sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer with the fonts folder directed.

Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Xiaodong Qi Xiaodong Qi 2, 3 3 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. You shouldn't need to use sudo on wget, unless you're writing to a location that needs root access. SomeoneSomewhere That is a command line I copied from the referenced solution in text.

Removing the sudo doesn't solve the issue. But thank you for your kind reminder : — Xiaodong Qi. Is there any reason for Ubuntu to continue using MS fonts? A much better solution would be to make Ubuntu get rid of those fonts!

Or, we can push Microsoft to make their fonts open-source : — Xiaodong Qi. What incentive would Microsoft have to make their fonts opensource? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Below is a temporary workaround to avoid this problem: Download all the fonts except for wd97vwr Then run the command line in your terminal: sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer with the fonts folder directed.

Improve this answer. Manuel F 48 6 6 bronze badges. The 30 Nov update using the "code" you provided seems to have solved this annoying problem for me I tried many other proposed solutions, but this is the only one that worked. Using the Debian package fixed it for me too on Xubuntu Confirming this worked on To test I used the normal ttf package and after 3 fail attempts and tested this one.

It worked immediately, so, so far this is the only way of installing the ttf package and it's fonts. Thank you, looks like Dec 10 update works for me with just two commands — Nikolay Prokopyev. Thank you very much for the wget info - downloading and installing the. Show 7 more comments. For a temp fix, you can download the fonts in a folder and run command: sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer — Xiaodong Qi.