os fail

[Crispin Wellington]

try the following in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

What happens? What errors do you get?

Crispin

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 2:04 PM, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net>
wrote:

> Recently when I get an auto update pop up and I say 'install' it starts
> downloading then before it executes, the window closes, no msg.  I tried
> sudo apt-get -update  it downloaded lots of files, then stopped.  I
> 'restarted' and after booting, I got a message that there is a system
> problem, do i wish to report it.  I did.  Then I tried running the ubuntu
> software center.  When I tried to download the synaptic pkg mgr, I got 3
> text boxes:
> 1 ?  I did a screenshot but I can find these 2-somthing about identity
> verification
> 2 ?  and freedesktop dot dot dot (...)
> 3 you do no have permission to run this program (similiar)
>
> uname reports the following:
>
> Linux sentry16 3.16.0-41-generic #57~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 18
> 18:01:50 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
>
>
>
> help?
>
> John
>
>
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