unable to update software sources and download fails

[romeapurba]

===========================
Install Updates Error log
===========================
Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nemh/systemback/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]
Get:7 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite citrine InRelease [2,107 B]
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [913 kB]
Err:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages
  Hash Sum mismatch
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Translation-en [429 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/restricted i386 Packages [7,580 B]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/restricted Translation-en [2,272 B]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [721 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [333 kB]
Fetched 1,035 kB in 4s (243 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/x...a5edcc6ae5  Hash Sum mismatch
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[Moltke]

Hash Sum mismatch

In order to fix this, open a terminal and type

Code:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

type in  your password when asked, hit enter and that should do. Try updating again and it should work.

Hope this helps!

[stone]

He himself could not figure it out for a long time. :-[

[ksenia]

maybe someone can help him and me.. ???