Synaptic reload fails for every file.

Hi.

After you change /etc/apt/sources.list, you need to resync the database. Type the following command in a terminal to do this. It will ask for your password, type it in and press enter even though you won't see anything while typing the password, it is ok.

sudo apt-get update

After running that command, you can check if apt is working by issuing a command such as

apt-cache search firestarter

If apt is feeling better, then you will see a line like

firestarter - gtk program for managing and observing your firewall

If it doesn't find firestarter, then please paste your /etc/apt/sources.list here

Good luck

Hi.
Thanks for the answer.
After "sudo apt-get update" I received errors for every line:
"Could not connect to il.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out"
My /etc/apt/sources.list here is as follows:

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security restricted main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates restricted main
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
kirill@kirill-desktop:~$

Hi

your sources.list seems to be ok...it is very similar to mine except that mine is us instead of il...

I've seen one other person having trouble using the il repository, their's turned out to be some kind of network problem where they couldn't connect to the repository. can you open this link in your browser? http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/

if not, then you may want to try a different mirror

hope this helps

I have the same trouble with all the repositories :
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-updates/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out

And I can open the link in the browser.
What about the "(1.0.0.0)" - seems like some address, may be it's some naming problem?

Hi

Agree that it looks like an ip address format, but as you probably know, it is invalid, so if it is resolving to that, then you shouldn't be able to get to it with a browser, so I'm thinking that is not the problem.

Are you using synaptic to do the installations? If so, can you try installing something with the terminal so that we can see if there are additional error messages?

To do this open a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal)
Type the following command to install the package of your choice, substituting the package to install for the word package. If you don't know one off of the top of your head, use the hello package.

sudo apt-get install package

Please paste any error messages back here.

Hi.

The command failed :

kirill@kirill-desktop:~$ <sudo apt-get install hello
bash: sudo: No such file or directory

Does it mean I don't have apt-get?

Hi

No, you have apt-get. there should not be a < before the word sudo :)

The < is a shell redirection operator, so it's trying to find a file named sudo to get in

good luck

Hi.
This is what I get.
kirill@kirill-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install hello
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package hello
kirill@kirill-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install firestarter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package firestarter

Tanks.

please try

sudo aptitude update

and paste here..

Hi.
This is what i've got:

sudo aptitude update
[sudo] password for kirill:
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016) gutsy/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016) gutsy/restricted Translation-en_US
Err http://archive.canonical.com gutsy Release.gpg
  Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security Release.gpg
  Could not connect to security.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://ubuntu.fastbull.org gutsy Release.gpg
  Could not connect to ubuntu.fastbull.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://archive.canonical.com gutsy/partner Translation-en_US
  Could not connect to archive.canonical.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
  Could not connect to security.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://ubuntu.fastbull.org gutsy/main Translation-en_US
  Could not connect to ubuntu.fastbull.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
31% [Connecting to ubuntu.fastbull.org (1.0.0.0)] [Connecting to security.ubuntu

AND it goes on like that , for every line in the source as it seems.
Thanks.

Ok, I found the answer in Question #21143.
Thank you everyone.