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I am running ubuntu 14.04 on an Acer aspire netbook all was going well until the latest updates. Now my wireless connection is very unstable and I have just gone to download K3b writing software from the ubuntu software centre and i keep getting an error saying 

Failed to download package files
 check your internet connection

Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libq/libqapt/libqapt2_2.1.70-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb 404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libq/libqapt/libqapt2-runtime_2.1.70-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb 404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libq/libqapt/qapt-batch_2.1.70-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb 404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]

I clearly have an internet connection thanks in advance

guntbert
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XDavid Panter
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    Try doing updating your package lists, the 404 means it looked but couldn't find those files. – Nattgew Sep 04 '14 at 17:26

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A 404 error tells you that the server was reached but doesn't have the requested file.

For the first line you showed us there is 

http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libq/libqapt/libqapt2_2.1.70-0ubuntu4.2_amd64.deb

but not the 

libqapt2_2.1.70-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb

your system was requesting.

Those situations are usually solved by updating the local apt database. Open a terminal window and type

sudo apt-get update

It will not hurt to get the actual updates too:

sudo apt-get upgrade

Afterwards you should be able to install any software you want from the Software Center or via command line.

guntbert
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