I tried sudo apt upgrade.  It loaded 388k of fiels, but when I ran the software updater, I got the same error message:
  "failed to download repository information"

John


On 10/01/2017 08:36 PM, Luke Van Dervoort wrote:
I got that the other day. Instead of update, do upgrade instead and let it a do what it can. That resolved it for me. Then do the update.

On Oct 1, 2017 8:28 PM, "John R. Sowden" <jsow...@americansentry.net <mailto:jsow...@americansentry.net>> wrote:

    getting an error running software updater.  cannot download
    repositories, the 'software is up to date'

    ran synaptic pkg mgr, ubuntu in search box, ran 'reload package
    information', got 'could not download all repository indexes' and
    the following text:

    Failed to fetch
    http://archive/getdeb.net/ubuntu/dists/xenial-getdeb/InRelease
    <http://archive/getdeb.net/ubuntu/dists/xenial-getdeb/InRelease>
    Could not resolve 'archive 'Some index files failed to download.
    They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

    trying to update purebasic.

    john



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