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I am getting this error and don't know how to approach the problem:

After updating your package information, the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal' could not be located. This may be because you have no official mirrors listed in your software sources, or because of excessive load on the mirror you are using. See /etc/apt/sources.list for the current list of configured software sources. In the case of an overloaded mirror, you may want to try the upgrade again later.

Can anyone please advise on what I need to do.

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  • What does apt-get update do? Do you get any errors?
    – Zoredache
    Commented Mar 7, 2017 at 23:24
  • See /etc/apt/sources.list.
    – Michael Hampton
    Commented Mar 8, 2017 at 0:13
  • There were no errors from apt-get update.
    – Michael Joyner
    Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 1:21

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I rebuilt my /etc/apt/sources.list with help from https://askubuntu.com/questions/124017/how-do-i-restore-the-default-repositories. My sources.list had some of my custom ones and the Linode mirrors. I just replaced my sources.list with the output from https://repogen.simplylinux.ch. I ran the upgrade again and it succeeded.

Example from my sources.list that failed

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution. deb http://mirrors.linode.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted
# deb-src http://mirrors.linode.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team. deb       
http://mirrors.linode.com/ubuntu/ xenial universe
# deb-src http://mirrors.linode.com/ubuntu/ xenial universe deb   
http://mirrors.linode.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates universe
# deb-src http://mirrors.linode.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates universe


Output from https://repogen.simplylinux.ch that worked

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#                            OFFICIAL UBUNTU REPOS                             #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

###### Ubuntu Main Repos
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted universe multiverse

###### Ubuntu Update Repos
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse
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