Unable to update–Solved

[Member greyowl]

I am trying to update a laptop (antiX 17) which I have not used for 6 months. It was updating fine in March 2020.
I tried sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and got a lot of error messages and statements that it could not resolve ‘la.mxrepo.com
I tried to update Synaptic and got the message: Failed to fetch http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch/dists/stretch/InRelease. Could not resolve ‘la.mxrepo.com” Also, failed to fetch and resolve the other repos which I selected in Repo Manager such as http://ftp.ca.debian.org and security.debian.org. The message also says: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
I have tried other repos locations in Repo Manager and they do not work either.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by greyowl.

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

[Member greyowl]

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Solved Problem.
It was a bad internet connection.
It now updates fine.

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

[Member ModdIt]

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Hi greyowl,
Not just for you, maybe others will read in future.

wrong system time or date is also a common cause of update problems.

Happened yet again yesterday on a fresh install from my master Image,
Time was automagically set in the future.

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Thanks for the information. This will be something to pay attention to in the future.

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

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