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I keep getting this error message upon every sudo apt-get update command, and plenty f other times while downloading and installing new software and packages... I was wondering if someone could help. 

E: GPG error: http://donwload.vidoelan.org  InRelease: Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NODATA' (does the network require authentication?)
Digizombie
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That URL you have there is bad (perhaps even malicious ?) - note that you have 

http://donwload.vidoelan.org/
         ^^        ^^

Which is incorrect - it should be https://download.videolan.org/, which does work, whereas the one you have just gives an empty page.

You need to remove this repository. To do so, open the "Software sources" utility (find it in the dash), go to the "Other software tab", and, if there's an entry for Videolan (or Vidoelan..), uncheck it.

Jonas Czech
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  • Thanks Jonas that made me feel like a bonehead. I didn't even notice. And yes it must have been malicious, because now I'm getting other error messages from sudo apt-get update. – Digizombie Jun 06 '16 at 20:00
  • @Digizombie - What are the other error messages ? I don't think it's malicious, as going to that website in the browser just gives an empty page. Probably just some bad settings somewhere. – Jonas Czech Jun 06 '16 at 20:05
  • I now get these errors very frequently Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.22-9_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) and E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). – Digizombie Jun 06 '16 at 22:42
  • @Digizombie, try doing sudo apt-get -f install, as it says/ – Jonas Czech Jun 07 '16 at 06:37
  • This is error feed back I go from doing that - thedpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.22-9_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/sbin/update-locale', which is also in package libc-bin 2.19-0ubuntu6.9 – Digizombie Jun 07 '16 at 11:15
  • dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) – Digizombie Jun 07 '16 at 11:16
  • Try deleting the file /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.22-9_all.deb. – Jonas Czech Jun 07 '16 at 11:19