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First of all I am new to Linux command line. I never worked with it before. My problem is that the command apt-get update will just return:

Err:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-security/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

My sources.list file looks like this:

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#                            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

My ubuntu version is: 

Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-66-generic x86_64)
Zanna
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Sandor
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I had the same issue. The heart of the problem was an inability to resolve DNS. I was missing my /etc/resolv.conf file.

The contents of it should be:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Afterwards, restart the correct interface (mine was lo instead of eth0). You can find it in the /etc/network/interfaces file.

BeastOfCaerbannog
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Tyler Ruppert
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I had the same issue, caused by incorrect DNS settings:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

In this file set a correct DNS server: dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8

sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo ifup eth0
pa4080
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Mehdy
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I had this same issue, but a slightly different error message. This worked for me:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Find the line for dns-nameserver. If you don't have it, add it like this:

dns-nameserver 208.067.222.222

That is the address for OpenDNS. You can also use 8.8.8.8, which is address for Google Public DNS.

wjandrea
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