archive's connection fails

Tom Coffin coffindvm at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 15 15:39:48 UTC 2006


On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 08:03:14AM -0700, Earl Violet wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:05:25PM -0500, Roshan Mansinghani wrote:
> Here is sources.list
> 
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> # deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted 
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> # deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
> 
> 
> I had this problem also. I removed the # from each repository line
> and removed the reference "us." in ALL repositories. Here is a
> partial example. I don't know why it works but it does. Not my idea,
> I got it over coffee at a local *nix get-together.
> 
> 
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted 
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted 
> 
> Earl

Thanks Earl I'll try that when I get rountoit next week hopefully.

Tom





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