Synaptic Package Manager Not Downloading

[Jkhatri]

On Friday 25 January 2013 09:40 PM, Bahn, Nathan wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Jkhatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday 25 January 2013 07:44 PM, Bahn, Nathan wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Jkhatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Friday 25 January 2013 07:59 AM, Bahn, Nathan wrote:
>>
>> The machine that I'm using has 12.04LTS.  All attempts at downloading
>> packages fail.  Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> What error message do you get ..???
>>
>> --
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>>
>>
>> W: Failed to fetch
>> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/shorewall/shorewall_4.4.26.1-1_all.deb
>>    Connection failed
>>
>
>
> The Chromium web browser can retrieve that URL;  the CLI ping, however, fails.
> :~$ ping http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/
> ping: unknown host http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/
> :~$
it fails because you are trying to ping host with "http://"  try this 
ping us.archive.ubuntu.com

BTW .. try to change update mirror from software center , and run sudo 
apt-get update



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