Make sure that you have cleared the whole sources.list and type the line
*deb ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/ubuntu oneiric main restricted multiverse universe
*
*
*
then reboot, and first update from the terminal. Now everything should be
fine

On 17 February 2012 02:07, Elangkumaran Jayabarathi <elangkumaranj@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Could somebody give me a step-by step (from scratch) on this one. I also
> have the same problem, but am a rookie Linux User.
> I know ftp.iitm.ac.in does not show up in 11.10, but my friend changed
> the software sources list (from his 10.10 he copied and pasted), and
> software centre is working fine, but the update manager is not. Please help.
> Thanking You,
> Elangkumaran
>
> *Bill Gates* : ”I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job
> because. definitely he will find an easy way to do that... think it
> different..”
>
>
>
>
> On 16 October 2011 11:17, Naveen Mathew <dbznfspop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I started configuring everything from scratch after removing apt.conf
>> and sources.list. After that I changed download source to 'Main server'.
>> Now everything is fine.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Naveen
>>
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>> IIT Madras Linux Users' Group
>> http://groups.google.co.in/group/linuxusers_iitm
>> http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~osslab/wiki
>>
>
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> http://groups.google.co.in/group/linuxusers_iitm
> http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~osslab/wiki
>

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