Question
apt-get update error : [W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.]
- Posted on December 23, 2014
Asked by infoDSC
When ever i use apt-get update command , or install any module it always says “W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.”
- I cant able to install MypHpadmin or any module
- is their any problem with source.list ? If yes , please provide me a valid source list
- Lots of error related to mirror, Failed to fetch http://mirrors.digitalocean.com
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mirrors.digitalocean.com seems to be working fine for me at the moment. Looks like this was probably just a temporary problem. If you’d rather replace the DigitalOcean provided mirrors with the main Ubuntu ones, running this command will update your
sources.list: