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I installed Kubuntu 18.04 a few hours ago and everything was running smoothly until I installed4 the zlib1g package due to a software that renders 3d geometry. Now it doesn't boot any more but I can boot in recovery mode. I tried:

sudo apt-get install --fix-broken

and i got this error:

Reading packages lists…Done
Correcting dependencies…Done
The following additional packages will be installed;
  zlib1g zlib1g:i386
The following packages will be upgraded:
  zlib1g zlib1g:i386
2 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 178 not to upgrade.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 115 KB of archives.
After this operation, 30.7 KB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Err:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 zlib1g amd64 1:1.2.11.dgsg-Oubuntu2
Temporary failure resolving ‘gb.archive.ubuntu.com’
Err2: http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 zlib1g i386 1:1.2.11.dgsg-Oubuntu2
Temporary failure resolving ‘gb.archive.ubuntu.com’
E: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.11.dsfg-Oubuntu2_amd64.deb Temporary failure
E: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.11.dsfg-Oubuntu2_i386.deb Temporary failure
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with—fix-missing?

Also tried: 

sudo apt-get update

and the same error where Linux couldn't fetch from the http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com.ubuntu/dists/bionic/InRelease

I checked the website myself and the link doesn't exist in fact.

Does someone have an idea why the files are not available in the above website? Or at least what to do to have Linux booting again?

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@pHeLiOn, thanks for pointing that. I'm new to the forum so learning how to use it.

Ok, so I have found a solution for the problem. Here is what I did.

I installed Kubuntu18.04 to use a 3D software called Houdini and a render software called Redshift. After installing both with no problems (right click on packages, "Extract", then right-click on executable and "Actions/Run in Konsole"), I had to install the Redshift license through the licensing tool. To run that tool, I had to have a package installed called libpng12-0. This is where the problem started, instead of installing the 64bit version (amd64) of the package, I installed the 32bit (i386) one. By the way, here's the right link to download the amd64 version of the libpng12-0 package: packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd64/libpng12-0/download

From that point on, Kubuntu wasn't booting to the GUI interface. I tried removing the package by running sudo dpkg --list and sudo apt-get --purge remove "package name" and the package wouldn't uninstall. Then I tried sudo apt-get autoclean and also sudo apt-get autoremove but no succsessfull results, still not booting to the GUI.

As i'm new to Linux, I decided to re-install Kubuntu and then went over the same process to install the softwares but this time I installed the right package (libpng12-0 amd64) and since then, the machine is working very well and extremely fast! Kubuntu 18.04 is just an amazing OS to work with IMO. Thanks to the team that put it together and thanks @pHeLiOn and other users that posted the info to my question above. Much appreciatted!

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