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terminal, software manager is not connecting to internet

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I am new to linux. I have big problem. Terminal or software manger or update manager are not able to connect to the internet. But my browser is working for internet.. Pls help me. Thank you all in advance
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Re: terminal, software manager is not connecting to internet

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Please open a terminal and post the result of this command:

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inxi -r
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Re: terminal, software manager is not connecting to internet

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mine is like this too and i'd rather avoid reinstalling but mine came up as

Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com petra main upstream import #id:linuxmint_main
deb http://extra.linuxmint.com petra main #id:linuxmint_extra
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ saucy partner
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pipelight-stable-saucy.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipelight/stable/ubuntu saucy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipelight/stable/ubuntu saucy main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam.list
deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ precise steam
deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ precise steam
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Re: terminal, software manager is not connecting to internet

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Hello, nesamdoom.

Thank you for trying to hijack this thread. No, your problem is not that the software management system cannot connect to the internet. Your problem is that you are using an obsolete version of Linux Mint, Linux Mint 16 Petra, based on obsolete Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy. Your sources list files reflect this.
Solution: Still using Linux Mint 14, 15, or 16? Upgrade to 17 asap!

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Re: terminal, software manager is not connecting to internet

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Hello, rising.

Please, do as told by austin.texas and post the screen output of

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inxi -r
Hm, actually better run

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inxi -Sr
(uppercase S, lowercase r) and post the screen output here. This will give us 2 important pieces of information:
+ the exact Linux Mint version which you use and which you viciously tried to hide away from us
+ the names and the content of the sources list files which your Mint uses.

And because you state
Terminal or software manger or update manager are not able to connect to the internet.
please open a terminal window, execute the command line

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sudo apt-get update
and post the complete screen output, too.
That command will try to query the software repositories and update the local copy of the list of available software. - It will not update any software package, however.
The output of "sudo apt-get update" will tell whether the software management system can query the repos or not.

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