[ale] Synaptic problems

[Mark Wright]

On Sep 15, 2007, at 8:41 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:

> Mark Wright wrote:
>> I thought I screwed up a Ubuntu 5.04 installation by not knowing  
>> enough about how to upgrade the repositories in synaptic.  But now  
>> I am having a similar problem on another 6.06 installation.
>> I haven't changed anything on this 6.06 box.  I am getting  
>> "connection refused"  Messages when I try to install updates.   
>> Currently patches for tar, rsync, and Mozilla.  The full text of  
>> the message is, "could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80  
>> (91.189.89.8) - connect (111 connection refused)"
>
> Any chance you have a proxy server set in synaptic?

Well, not in synaptic but I am using Dansguardian on my lAN and have  
all the boxes using it as a proxy for the internet.  I can't say for  
sure if synaptic has worked since I installed DG.  But I can ping the  
repositories and download the packages with my browser.  Why can  
Synaptic?


>
> I'm not sure what you mean by upgrade the repositories in Synaptic.  
> Since at least 6.06, when a new distribution is released the  
> upgrade manager can switch your repositories for you. Pre 6.06 you  
> could do the following.
>
> cd /etc/apt
> sudo mv sources.list sources.list.bak
> sudo sh -c "sed s:hoary:breezy:g sources.list.bak > sources.list"
> sudo aptitude update
> sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
>
> You would replace hoary and breezy with the version you are  
> currently running and the next version.
>
> Ubuntu 5.04 reached end of live in October 2006. To get to a  
> supported release, you'd have to upgrade to 5.10 then upgrade that  
> to 6.06. A clean install is probably your easiest option.

Yeah the 5.04 box will have to be a clean install.  I only mentioned  
it because I somehow managed to screw that one up too.  I when I  
couldn't get it to work I decided to upgrade.  After trying the  
instructions on Ubuntu's site I have a situation where I can't  
install anything in any fashion, cant even install from source.

>
> -Brian
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