Re: apt-get failing

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:05:32AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote:
On Oct 31, 4:00 pm, Andrew Sackville-West
<and...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:17:24AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote:
Hello,

I am trying to install some new software as well as updating my
packages but apt-get install and apt-get update both fail. apt-get
update fails with:

Errhttp://security.debian.orgetch/updates Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving âsecurity.debian.orgâ
...apt errors

My /apt/sources.list file is as follows:

debhttp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/etch main
deb-srchttp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/etch main
debhttp://security.debian.org/etch/updates main
deb-srchttp://security.debian.org/etch/updates main
debhttp://download.webmin.com/download/repositorysarge contrib
debhttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstable all
deb-srchttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstable all

I am able to ping external websites using both ip and name, The

great that you can ping external websites, but can you ping the debian
servers? those are the ones that count here ;) Also there are some
funky characters and missing characters in your apt output above. Is
that transcription error? or something else?

Thanks very much for replying. Could not ping the debian servers! I've
entered the ip address for the debian sites in the hosts an voila!
However, those are funky characters above... they worried me as well
and am not sure how and why they appear like that.



so you've got a name resolution problem. I'm betting that your
sources.list is not properly encoded somehow. try creating a new one
from scratch and see what happens. no copy and paste! retype it in a
basic text editor like vim, or in a small operating system like emacs.

The funky characters are the clue I'm looking at there...

A

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