[ubuntu-in] Cannot download anything through Apt-get

[ZUBIN ABDULLAH LALANI]

On 7/12/07, shavinder singh <nanbudh at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>  I am having a problem for past some months. Everytime i login as
> administator account Gnome showa a yellow bubble informing me "119 updates
> available". Now the problem is when i try to download something it shows no
> progress and after a long time would give a message that it "failed to
> fetch" stuff from such and such source. I have trying to download any
> bittorent client (tried Azerues, bittornado etc)for 15 days now but the
> synaptic just stands their withou showing any progress. please help; here is
> my /etc/apt/sources.list:
> # Automatically generated sources.list
> # http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic/
> #
> # If you get GPG errors with this sources.list, locate the GPG key in this
> file
> # and run these commands (where KEY is replaced with that key)
> #
> # gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys KEY
> # gpg --export --armor KEY | sudo apt-key add -
> #
> # If you don't know what to do with this file, read
> #
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine
>
> # Ubuntu supported packages
> # GPG key: 437D05B5
> deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main
> restricted
> deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main
> restricted
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
> restricted
>
> # Ubuntu community supported packages
> # GPG key: 437D05B5
> deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe
> multiverse
> deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates
> universe multiverse
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security
> universe multiverse
>
> # Seveas' Ubuntu Packages
> # GPG key: 1135D466
> deb http://mirror2.ubuntulinux.nl/ dapper-seveas all
>
> # Ubuntu backports project
> # GPG key: 437D05B5
> deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports
> main restricted universe multiverse
>
> # Upstream Wine
> # GPG key: 387EE263
> deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
>
> # Upstream Opera
> # GPG key: 6A423791
> deb http://deb.opera.com/opera etch non-free
>
> # Canonical Commercial packages
> # GPG key: 437D05B5
> deb http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial main
> deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 6.06.1 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386 (20060807.1)]/ dapper
> main restricted
>
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there seems to be a prob with the dns server..
try caching the ips using nslookup before using apt
you may even want to change the dns server

cheers zubeen




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