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apt- get update or synaptic not working

Asked by pranav

hi,
the problem i am having is iam not able to connect to any of these servers to upgrade or install new programs if you can have a look on the source file . I have internet can go onto this servers by mozilla can download anything I think it is just in this file i am having trouble. apt-get update/upgrade doesnot work either just waits at 0% .Please help.
this is my source.list file
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## 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.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe

## 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://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
##deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dists dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security dapper-security universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Hi,
did you edit the sources.list manually?
I would correct:

# Ubuntu supported packages
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted

# Ubuntu community supported packages
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates universe

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security multiverse

try copy & paste
then #sudo apt-get update

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pranav (pranav1sood-gmail) said : 		#2

yes i manually edited this file before as i was having this problem I did a copy paste of this source file but it still doesnot work i am still having the same problem it doesnot connect to the repositories. thats the error message I am getting when i try to update dapper

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gtk+2.0/libgtk2.0-common_2.8.20-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb
 W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gtk+2.0/libgtk2.0-bin_2.8.20-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
 W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gtk+2.0/libgtk2.0-0_2.8.20-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
 W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/poppler/libpoppler1-glib_0.5.1-0ubuntu7.4_i386.deb
 W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/poppler/libpoppler1_0.5.1-0ubuntu7.4_i386.deb
 W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/poppler/poppler-utils_0.5.1-0ubuntu7.4_i386.deb
 W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gs-esp/gs-esp_8.15.2.dfsg.0ubuntu1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
 W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06.9_i386.deb
  W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-bsd_1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06.9_i386.deb
  W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-client_1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06.9_i386.deb

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

Hi,
the sources.list I wrote doesn't include the archive ubuntu/pool ;-)
I don't see an error message, it just can't get the packages. You should verify the source is activated.
I've reached [http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cupsys/], but it took an awful long time, maybe you just try the upgrade later.
Also try to clean with #sudo apt-get autoclean.
Then again #sudo apt-get update and #sudo apt-get upgrade.

btw. Before editing a system file like sources.list you should always make a backup from the clean original one.
The system itself creates one also, it's in /etc/apt/sources.list.bak (in Hardy LTS it calls sources.list.save)

Good luck

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pranav (pranav1sood-gmail) said : 		#4

Thnks SAM for u r suggestion but i am still having the problem I am not able to update my system eithet by get-apt or synaptic and cannot add remove programs too. i did as u told got the bakup file copy pasted it still no sucess.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#5

Hi pranav,
please provide exactly the steps you've made and show the outputs.
e.g. I made
#sudo apt-get update
Output

Please show the new sources.list you put in order, it should not have the ending .bak or .backup of course.
After you choose a new one try:
#sudo dpkg --configure -a

Important is, when you still run dapper, that before dist-upgrading to hardy, you have to make sure installing all the latest updates for dapper and this is what we will try now.

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Papa Moussa N. Gueye (gueyepaco1) said : 		#6

Hi I think you have to reinitialize your netcard typing the command /etc/init.d/networking restart

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