<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div>Thanks Onkar,Roshan and Zubin for your help and suggestion. I found out what was wrong. It was System Network Proxy which was wrong.System>Preferences>Network Proxy was set to manual 128.0.0.1, i then set it to "direct connection to internet" and the Synaptic started working all right. I must have fiddled with it at some point.<br>Thanks a lot.<br></div></div><br>
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