Re: apt-get failing

2007-11-02 Thread justsimplequestions
On Nov 2, 12:40 am, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See if you can get out to google.com with your browser and if you do so, > have your browser refresh the page and see if the google.com page comes up > again. If it doesn't you've either got a modem needing updating or > another intern

Re: apt-get failing

2007-11-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
See if you can get out to google.com with your browser and if you do so, have your browser refresh the page and see if the google.com page comes up again. If it doesn't you've either got a modem needing updating or another internet connectivity problem. you could try dhclient -r && ifconfig e

dns? [Was: Re: apt-get failing]

2007-11-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:55:48PM -, justsimplequestions wrote: > You're absolutely right - its definitely a DNS issue. Without even > retyping the sources.list manually, it looks like I can not not ping > by name either. I know in my original post I said I could ping > external sites but it

Re: apt-get failing

2007-11-01 Thread justsimplequestions
On Oct 31, 6:10 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:05:32AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote: > > On Oct 31, 4:00 pm, Andrew Sackville-West > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:17:24AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote: > > > >

Re: apt-get failing

2007-10-31 Thread justsimplequestions
On Oct 31, 4:00 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:17:24AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote: > > Hello, > > > I am trying to install some new software as well as updating my > > packages but apt-get install and apt-get update both fail. apt-get > > upd

Re: apt-get failing

2007-10-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:05:32AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote: > On Oct 31, 4:00 pm, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:17:24AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > I am trying to install some new software as well as updating

Re: apt-get failing

2007-10-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:17:24AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install some new software as well as updating my > packages but apt-get install and apt-get update both fail. apt-get > update fails with: > > Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg >