apt-get problems straight away
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Hi all,
After having mepis on vmware for a few weeks I decided I was happy enough with it to install it properly on my hard drive. Initial problems are:
1. that my wireless LAN card can't see my wireless router's network (no worries, got a normal LAN card plugged in for now anyway, looking at playing with ndiswrapper to solve that)
2. that firefox didn't work straight away (I went to about :config and changed the network.dns.IPv6.disable value to True and voila, it works!)
3. the real problem: apt-get.
Output from apt-get update:
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Release
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Release
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
0% [Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (1.0.0.0)]
etc
etc
here's my sources.list:
root@1[apt]# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# This file may be edited by the MEPIS System Center
# Do not modify the comments manually!
# Change sources only in the section at the end of this file!
# Primary
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
# non-us
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-f
ree
#deb-src ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-
free
#deb-src ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free
# MEPIS apt pool - specific packages available on-line
deb http://apt.mepis.org/3.3 unstable main
# DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE
# mplayer
deb http://orniere-du-globe.net/debian ./
deb-src http://orniere-du-globe.net/debian ./
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
Here's the output from apt-get update:
root@1[mark]# apt-get update
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages
Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://apt.mepis.org unstable/main Packages
Could not connect to apt.mepis.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Packages
Could not connect to ftp.nerim.net:21 (32.1.7.168), connection timed out [IP:
32.1.7.168 21]
Err http://orniere-du-globe.net ./ Packages
Could not connect to orniere-du-globe.net:80 (32.1.7.168), connection timed ou
t
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Release
Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://apt.mepis.org unstable/main Release
Could not connect to apt.mepis.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Release
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Release
Could not connect to ftp.nerim.net:21 (32.1.7.168), connection timed out [IP:
32.1.7.168 21]
Err http://orniere-du-globe.net ./ Release
Could not connect to orniere-du-globe.net:80 (32.1.7.168), connection timed ou
t
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Packages
Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://orniere-du-globe.net ./ Sources
Could not connect to orniere-du-globe.net:80 (32.1.7.168), connection timed ou
t
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Release
Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://orniere-du-globe.net ./ Release
Could not connect to orniere-du-globe.net:80 (32.1.7.168), connection timed o
t
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Packages
Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Release
Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed ou
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release
Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:21 (1.0.0.0), connection timed ou
0% [Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (1.0.0.0)] [Connecting to non-us.debia
I'm behind a D-link ADSL modem-router with NAT enabled if it's relevant. I must admit that though I'm pretty fresh with regards to Linux I don't really get how apt can fail even though http and ftp both wotk fine?
Cheers
Mark
connection timed out
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Some broadband gateways (modems) can't handle multiple high-speed dns requests. The best known culprits are the Actiontec DSL gateways, but others may be effected as well. Contact your ISP & obtain the primary & secondary DNS server. It should be a long number like 123.456.7.89
Go to your "MEPIS OS Center" (or MCS in older versions), find the misc tab & enter those DNS server numbers. That solved the problem for me.
Lance
Try MEPIS...It's curtains for Windows!
apt-get
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you don't say what version you are using i would suggest that if you can get Mepis 3.3 as a newbie myself it contains alot of useful apts. and Synaptic Package Manager just works easier. I find it really seems more intuitive than using apt-get.
simplify...simplify