Unable to install anything in Ubuntu 18.04 Terminal

Question

I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 alongside windows 10 but I am getting these message whenever trying to install anything.

    ~$ sudo snap install canonical-livepatch
[sudo] password for john: 
error: cannot install "canonical-livepatch": Post
       https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh: dial tcp: lookup
       api.snapcraft.io: no such host
~$ sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ubuntu-restricted-extras

Does this answer your question? How do I enable the "multiverse" repository? — N0rbert, Feb 05 '20 at 20:21
What's the output of nmcli networking connectivity check? api.snapcraft.io should resolve to a set of IPs, try other DNSs — Pablo Bianchi, Feb 06 '20 at 01:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '20 at 06:33

Sounds like maybe you’re repositories are outdated or corrupt.

Try sudo su root apt update

apt full-upgrade -y

If that fails (it should if your repositories are messed up.)

Try this

apt-get check && apt-get update
apt-upgrade

Note you may need to run the update a couple of times.

Unable to install anything in Ubuntu 18.04 Terminal

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