"automatic" updates not working?

[Jeff]

> Jeff,
>
> On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 17:01 -0500, Jeff wrote:
>
>> I have been playing around with Ubuntu (one box has the desktop, the
>> other
>> the server) for a couple of weeks.
>>
>> I have LOTS of questions, but generally have gotten the system to work
>> well and am impressed.
>>
>> One question I want to ask now is regarding the system updates.  When I
>> log in, it tells me that there are updates.  When I try to go through
>> installing them, it tells me that it can't connect to the server to
>> install them.  I have the same problem trying to populate the list of
>> possible program updates.
>
> Presumably you can access the Internet using a WEB browser etc?

Yes.  I am getting a browser to access sites just fine.  I also have EMAIL
up and going, and so forth.

>
> You could try running the following in a terminal window and posting the
> output here:
>
> 	sudo apt-get update
>


OK. Here it is:


desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources
  Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg  Connection
failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/Release.gpg 
Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg 
Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/source/Sources.gz 
Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/restricted/source/Sources.gz
 Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
 Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/main/source/Sources.gz
 Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Failed to fetch
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/restricted/source/Sources.gz
 Connection failed [IP: 195.248.90.23 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.



Thanks!!!