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Why does it say connection to local host refused when i am able to surf the net

Asked by walksponsored

Hi i am very new to Linux and when i installed it i was able to install a lot of packages and they worked. Now when i go to install a package i get this message - W: Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firestarter/firestarter_1.0.3-1.1ubuntu4.1_i386.deb
  Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused) - i can't install anything now like plugins or updates even though i can go on the net, i am a beginner and do not want to mess my whole system up trying to fix it.

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#1

Hello,

do you have "Direct Internet connection" selected in "System" > "Preferences" > "Network Proxy" ?

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walksponsored (sponsoredwalk) said : 		#2

Yes i do, I have no idea what to write in any of the other boxes.

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#3

No, It is normal, you don't need to change anything there.

Navigate to "System" > "Administration" > "Synaptic Package Manager"
Go to "Settings" > "Preferences"
Go to "Network" tab

Do you have "Direct connection to the internet" selected there ?

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walksponsored (sponsoredwalk) said : 		#4

yeah!

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#5

Hmm strange,

Can you download this package manually ?
Please paste this in a terminal and report the result here:
wget http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firestarter/firestarter_1.0.3-1.1ubuntu4.1_i386.deb

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walksponsored (sponsoredwalk) said : 		#6

oem@keith:~$ wget http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firestarter/firestarter_1.0.3-1.1ubuntu4.1_i386.deb
Error parsing proxy URL http://localhost:4001 : Bad port number.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#7

Have you installed the anon-proxy package? If so you may want to remove it to solve this.

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walksponsored (sponsoredwalk) said : 		#8

I got rid of that package but this still comes up
W: Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/audacity/audacity_1.2.4b-2ubuntu2_i386.deb
  Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused)

W: Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firestarter/firestarter_1.0.3-1.1ubuntu4.1_i386.deb
  Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused)

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Peter Cruickshank (petercruickshank) said : 		#9

please post the contents of your "/etc/hosts" file

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#10

Just restart, it should work.

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walksponsored (sponsoredwalk) said : 		#11

great thank you so much, just out of curiousity is there a package to watch windows media file types on the net? it always comes up intall missing plugins but firefox cannot find them, thank you very much!!!

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Best Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#12

This should answer all your needs:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

If not just ask (but please do it in a new question).

Thanks.

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walksponsored (sponsoredwalk) said : 		#13

Thanks Cesare Tirabassi, that solved my question.

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turquoiz (shadow-dance) said : 		#14

if a proxy is running then this error is common,
anon-proxy, proxify etc r few popular ones,
ensure that these are completely removed not just purged via adept or synaptic package manager
& reboot

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pro003 (pro003) said : 		#15

I can confirm that anon-proxy was directly causing this problem. Soon as I removed/purged it, wget was working again.
I just had to reboot.

Thanks guys.