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Ubuntu 8.04 Update Manager hanging

Asked by andyT

I have recently upgraded from 7.10 (done using the upgrade button in the update manager) and everything worked without issue until last week when I was prompted to install an update for Thunderbird. I launched update manager and clicked the "install updates" button. This caused update manager to grey out and stay that way (nothing else happened - no dialogs indicating downloading/installing updates). This has happened everytime I have tried it the last few days (I have rebooted and closed down completely many times).

Thanks

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Best Zombie (initramfs) said : 		#1

andyT,

Fire-Up a Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and enter the following commands:
sudo apt-get update (you will be prompted for your password)
sudo apt-get upgrade

With Regards,
Zombie.

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andyT (andrew-thomson) said : 		#2

Thanks Zombie, that solved my question.

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DDC1154 (ddc1154) said : 		#3

I am new in Ubuntu by the biais of a friend of mine telling me about his adevture with the system. So Ii bought parts and set up a new machine using Intel Core 2; 4 Gig memory and 500 G hard drive etc. Now I try to install Ubuntu and I have an error stating: that revalidation failed errno=-5;
ata3-01 exception Emask 0X0 Sact0X0 Serr 0X0 action 0X2 frozen
Status[DRDY]

Can someone please help me to decifer the system and have it running? Thanks in advance.

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DDC1154 (ddc1154) said : 		#4

I am new in Ubuntu by the biais of a friend of mine telling me about his adventure with the system. So I bought parts and set up a new machine using Intel Core 2; 4 Gig memory and 500 Gig hard drive etc. Now I try to install Ubuntu 8.04 and I have an error stating: ata3.00 revalidation failed errno=-5;
ata3-01 exception Emask 0X0 Sact0X0 Serr 0X0 action 0X2 frozen
Status[DRDY]

Can someone please help me to decifer the system and have it running? Thanks in advance.

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DDC1154 (ddc1154) said : 		#5

Well the machine is not yet running How do I get in and make changes? I can only make changes in the BIOS and that's all. Please I am new and don't know any command yet on Ubuntu.

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supportsage (larryweeks) said : 		#6

I keep getting this message and when I try to reload 8 it hangs on the cd. How do I get it to recognize it?

W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release amd64 (20071016)]/dists/gutsy/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs

W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release amd64 (20071016)]/dists/gutsy/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages.gz Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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DDC1154 (ddc1154) said : 		#7

I am not comparing Microsoft Windows and Ubuntu. I am new in this new one. How can I continue to write french with its accents. Can someone please help me to find some type of conversation Writting French without the accents distorts the sentence

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DDC1154 (ddc1154) said : 		#8

Once more I am begging you to help me on how to form the french accents while typing. I used to get them by combining a couple key strokes such as alt 133, alt 135 etc. These functions do not work with Ubuntu. Once more can someone tell mwe how to get acces to them Please.
Sincerely yours
          New kid in town..

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nine (niin-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#9

You have been typing your question below another question that was solved. Therefore, not many people will see your question. Please try to create a new question and hopefully more people will see it.