I can’t put a tick in the boxes ?
When I leave that screen another box comes up that says
The information about available software is out of date
reload the information ?
Hi Graeme,
Well I checked as you asked and this is what I found:
on opening the Software and Updates on the peppermint tab the top 4 are all ticked, on the "Other Software tab most of the boxes are ticked (except the canonical and a couple of others.
On the Updates tab, nothing is ticked at all, but I am getting updates regularly , am certain I havent made any changes to any of these tabs, I tend not to do that sort of thing unless someone on here who knows what they are doing advises the change.
Don, I noticed your comment, so just tried to tick a box in the Update Tab, I had no problem the tick went in and then I was asked for password Authentication. I removed the tick cos as I said earlier I dont change things unless I get advice to.
Hope this is helpful Guys, it seems to be working great for me at the moment, ;D ;D
Regards,
Degsy
ps I got that message as well Don, I did the relaod but nothing seemed to change.
I can't put a tick in the boxes ? When I leave that screen another box comes up that says The information about available software is out of date reload the information ?
I’m getting the exact same issue
Graeme
OK 2 things…
a) Anyone that regularly uses either the updater, or updates from the command line may never see the updater … juust depends how often you manually update and boot your PC
b) As Degsy says, you should get updates even without any boxes ticked … but are you saying when you tick the top 2 boxes that (after electing to update the cache) the boxes untick themselves ?
Quote: but are you saying when you tick the top 2 boxes that (after electing to update the cache) the boxes untick themselves ?
That happened to me.
Jocklad
OK, it’s quite easy to check if these repos are active or not
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Then check these 4 (or just the ones you want) are all included on an active line somewhere
(active meaning the line DOESN’T start with an “#”)
trusty-security
trusty-updates
trusty-proposed
trusty-backports
Here’s the 4 lines from my sources.list … but your’s may differ slightly (I managed to nuke mine and had to rebuild it)
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ [b]trusty-security[/b] main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ [b]trusty-updates[/b] main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ [b]trusty-proposed[/b] main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ [b]trusty-backports[/b] main restricted universe multiverse
If I only had the top 2 boxes ticked, I’d expect the backports and proposed lines to either start with an # (commented out), or not exist at all
(most likely commented out.
Any problems, post the contents of your sources.list here.
but are you saying when you tick the top 2 boxes that (after electing to update the cache) the boxes untick themselves ?
Yes
See above 
It may be that the lines are active in your sources.list … just not being reflected in the GUI tick boxes.
(IIRC, Peppermint 4 64bit had that bug … as I gather did Ubuntu 13.04 … the lines were there and working, but the tick boxes still appeared empty)
Are you on 64bit PM5 ?
Are you on 64bit PM5 ?
Yes, but I should add that my wifes PC which was upgraded to PM5 at around the same time is 32bit and it’s not offered any updates either and I know she never updated from the command line
Graeme
What are your settings for
Automatically check for updates: Daily
When there are security updates: Display immediately
When there are other updates: Display weekly
?
Hi Mark,
I get this from the command
don@ldwatson ~ $ gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
** (gedit:9783): WARNING **: Could not load Gedit repository: Typelib file for namespace ‘GtkSource’, version ‘3.0’ not found
Then I get a page called sources.list that has quite a few lines that are active
There are 6 lines with trusty-security
There are 5 lines with trusty-updates
There are 2 lines with trusty-backport
There are no lines with trusty-proposed
The settings are exacty as you posted
Automatically check for updates: Daily When there are security updates: Display immediately When there are other updates: Display weekly
This may help better describe what’s happening
click the icon on the bottom right to go full screen
http://videobin.org/+81p/aqs.html
Graeme
You say click the icon bottom right to go to fullscreen … but there is NO icon bottom right :-\
Anyway … what does that error say ?
Failed to download repository information
or something like that ? … that would explain no updates.
Do you get any errors from:
sudo apt update
?
Oh, and I’d like to complain about the lack of peppermintiness on your wallpaper >:(
You say click the icon bottom right to go to fullscreen .. but there is NO icon bottom right :-\
Just right click anywhere on the video and there is a option for full screen (on FF anyway)
And I would agree about the wallpaper, not even a hint of peppermint. :o
So there is … cheers SeZo
[EDIT]
You’d think by now I’d have the computer gizmos figured out wouldn’t you :o
And yes, not so much as a Pepperhint … not a candy stripe in sight.
Ok I agree about about the lack of peppermintness, I only discovered that wallpaper a few days ago and was gonna make it a future project to experiment with Gimp and replace one of the logos with a peppermint but just haven’t got round to it
But in spite of that I think it’s a nice bright and colourful general Linux wallpaper nonetheless don’t you think ?
Graeme
So how about errors from:
sudo apt update
?
W: GPG error: http://download.opensuse.org Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 977C43A8BA684223 W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/openshot.developers/ppa/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not FoundW: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/openshot.developers/ppa/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/stebbins/handbrake-releases/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/stebbins/handbrake-releases/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
graeme@Linux1 ~ $
These are the only errors which seem to be PPA’s I’ve added myself apart from the top one which seems a little strange
Not a Buntu user and would not use ppa’s either (that is just me)
Did you play with ownCloud by any chance to get the opensuse line into your sources?
To get rid of the opensuse error you either remove the offending line from your /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d
Alternatively you could add the key:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 977C43A8BA684223
then run:
sudo apt-get update
As for the rest try disabling the ppa’s
What he said
How did those PPA’s get there in the first place ? … openshot.developers and handbrake-release don’t contain any packages for “trusty” 
(you may as well delete them)
Then as SeZo suggests - remove (or comment out) the opensuse repo, or download its key.
Once done, see if you get any errors from:
sudo apt update
now.