Update failing on 8.10 - how to sort it out?

[Chris G]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 05:11:41PM +0530, Raseel Bhagat wrote:
>    On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Chris G <[1]cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
>      I'm getting an error from Update Manager which says:-
> 
>         W: Failed to fetch
>      [2]http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/xorg_7.4~5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
>           404 Not Found
> 
>      What do I need to do to sort this out?
> 
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>    Hi Chris,
> 
>    you can try to "Reload" from the Synaptic package manager , OR,
>    you can simply execute the following command from a terminal :
>    $ sudo apt-get update
> 
Of course, thanks, I'd forgotten that keeping the package lists up to
date is a different action from ugrading software.

Why are the two things separated?

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Chris Green