Update Manager fails

[Kenneth Loafman]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 04/21/2010 11:25 AM, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote:
>> For the last three days or so, when I run Update Manager (Ubuntu 9.10)
>> it fails after trying for several minutes and reports:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/karmic/Release.gpg
>> Could not connect to packages.medibuntu.org:80 (88.191.82.11),
>> connection timed out
>>
>> W: Failed to fetch
>> http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/karmic/free/i18n/Translation-en_IE.bz2
>> Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org http:
>>
>> W: Failed to fetch
>> http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/karmic/non-free/i18n/Translation-en_IE.bz2
>> Unable to connect to packages.medibuntu.org http:
>>
>> W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
>> ones used instead.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Is this likely to be something wrong with those repositories, or with my
>> system? (I haven’t been making any changes; in fact I wouldn’t know
>> how.) Any advice about what I can do to fix it?
>>
>>
>>
>>    
>      Do the whole thing in a terminal and see if it works better :-)
> 
> $ sudo aptitude update
> 
> then
> 
> $ sudo apptiude upgrade
> 
> Please report back if this works for you ;-)


See this... the medibuntu repos are down for a while:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3111120

...Ken