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In Ubuntu 14.04 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop' returns a lot of 404 Not Found errors

Posted on December 24, 2015

In Ubuntu 14.04 ‘sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop’ returns a lot of 404 Not Found errors for http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu

Please how do I fix this? Thank you



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Hi there!

Give this a try and see if it helps:

rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* apt-get clean apt-get update

If I can be of any further assistance, please be sure to let me know.

Kind Regards, Jarland Platform Support Specialist

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