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Whenever I try to upgrade on raspbian it says, "E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Nothing I have tried yet works. It also was like this when I used Ubuntu and Manjaro.

Thanks in advance for any solutions

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  • Hello and welcome -- Add what exactly you have tried to solve the problem.
    – Mohi Rostami
    Commented Feb 22, 2020 at 18:18
  • Try running sudo apt update (the more modern command than sudo apt-get update). Then runsudo apt dist-upgrade -y to try again.
    – Dougie
    Commented Feb 22, 2020 at 21:00
  • I am not sure if you are asking a question like this "Should I upgrade if I found anything interesting?" or this "Should I be the first user?" My answer is yes, and no, it all depends how are your engineering trade off or business cost benefit analysis. I am a die hard Winows guy, and I have only used serious Raspbian for about 5 hobbyist years. I think I have spent perhaps 100+ hours in end-up-failure upgrades, each "wasting" 3+ hours. Yes, they all ended up failures, but then I learnt many linux tricks that I-didn't-know-that-I-didn't-know. So I see all of them good learning experiences.
    – tlfong01
    Commented Feb 23, 2020 at 2:10

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It's a common problem with Linux users.

Remove content of /var/lib/apt/lists directory by: 

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

then run it: 

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update

And: 

sudo apt-get upgrade --fix-missing
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    thanks, it worked for that. Although after I downloaded chrome 64 bit for deb, I tried to install it using terminal, it came up with this error, if you have any solutions to that too it would be extremely helpful. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb dpkg: error processing archive google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb (--install): package architecture (amd64) does not match system (armhf) Errors were encountered while processing: google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
    – BalboBiggans
    Commented Feb 22, 2020 at 18:41
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    @BalboBiggans That should be asked as a separate question, thanks: raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q/108646/5538
    – goldilocks ♦
    Commented Feb 22, 2020 at 19:51
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I have this problem when upgrading

You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgeotiff2 : Depends: libproj13 (>= 4.8.0) but it is not installed libogdi3.2 : Depends: libproj13 (>= 4.8.0) but it is not installed libspatialite7 : Depends: libproj13 (>= 4.8.0) but it is not installed proj-bin : Depends: libproj13 (>= 5.0.0) but it is not installed python-gdal : Depends: gdal-abi-2-4-0 Depends: libgdal20 (>= 2.4.0) but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

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