Linux – Some packages in mint not updating

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I'm new to Linux Mint 12 and I can't tell for sure, but I think I'm missing some updates. When I run update manager and it's fetching the list of packages to be updated, a bunch of packages list status: failed.

And when I run sudo apt-get update, a couple packages say Hit but most are listed as Ign (which I assume stands for Ignored).

I know that Mint purposely avoids installing some updates because they're not yet considered stable, but this looks like it's not even fetching the list of available updates.

Specifically I added the repository http://ppa.launchpad.net/jamesodhunt/bug-829980/ubuntu for a particular bug-fix which didn't seem to work, I think because the repository is being ignored.

I can't seem to find any references anywhere to other people having the same problem. Everything I've found where people are having trouble fetching packages for updates, they seem to be getting explicit error messages, but I don't see any.

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If you have added ppa directly with apt-add-repository command then it might setup the ppa for maya ie(Mint). I would ask you to check that out in software sources. (Search for software sources app in mint menu). There under the tab 'Other software'. Select the ppa you have installed.Click edit and change the option under 'Distribution' from 'maya' to 'precise'. Then save it run run update manager again.

If the above said option fails: It would of better if you could check which packages are being held back. If the package belongs to the ppa then nothing much can be done other than to disable that ppa. For that I would recommend ppa-purge or y ppa manager.

Regarding your doubt of Ign and Hits while updating software database, it's quite normal. And most of the ignored ones are translation packages. So dont worry. Only thing which you should worry is if at the end of update process it throws out error saying some packages couldn't be updated.

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First of all, despite the last line start with E: (which indicates an error), apt didn't fail entirely; it's downloaded most of the updated package lists, it only skipped those for Opera and the Google Talk plugin. So apt upgrade should still offer to upgrade all the other packages.

The warnings give you some indication of what went wrong:

W: gpgv:/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_Release.gpg: The repository is insufficiently signed by key 4CCA1EAF950CEE4AB83976DCA040830F7FAC5991 (weak digest)
W: gpgv:/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.opera.com_opera_dists_stable_InRelease: The repository is insufficiently signed by key 419D0ACF314E8E993F7F92E563F7D4AFF6D61D45 (weak digest)
W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/dists/stable/Release  No Hash entry in Release file /var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_Release, which is considered strong enough for security purposes

The first two mean that the repository descriptors were signed with an old digest algorithm, which apt now complains about. The third is caused by apt's recent switch to SHA-256 or SHA-512 hashes only; the Talk plugin repository only provides MD5 and SHA-1 hashes, which are now ignored by apt.

To fix this, you can either remove the repositories for the time being, or wait for Opera and Google to fix them...

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