Cannot install new programs or update with adept. [FIXED]

[Snowhog]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

Okay. Check Adept Manger again, Manage Repositories, and ensure that you also have checked, on the Updates tab, the following items:

Important security updates
Recommend updates
Unsupported updates

And under Automatic Updates:
Check for Updates Daily
Only notify about available updates

Then force Adept Manager to fetch updates.

[prodigal64Bit]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

Yeah done all that lol

[Snowhog]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

Okay, now we have to inquire: What country are you in, and so, what location are the repositories being checked from?

Have you actually looked at your /etc/apt/sources.list file to make sure 'all is well'?

[SheeEttin]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

And Snowhog wins today's speed-typing award too... I was just about to ask the same thing!

[prodigal64Bit]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

I'm in NZ but have tried numerous different repos to check with including NZ, Aus, UK, US, Main server etc and nothing seems to work any different.

[Snowhog]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

So, when you open Adept Manager, what are the stats reported at the bottom of the screen? For me, I show:
1008 installed, 0 upgradable, 23318 available

[prodigal64Bit]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

921 installed, 0 upgradable, 950 available

[Snowhog]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

I think it's time for us to look at your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

[prodigal64Bit]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

Well this is my /etc/apt/sources.list file, I've changed a few things around in it a few times to try and get it working and the last thing I did was to UNcomment all the repos just to see if it would at least connect to one of them but still got nothing.

# See [url]http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes[/url] for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy-updates universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy-updates multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src [url]http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb [url]http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu[/url] gutsy partner
deb-src [url]http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu[/url] gutsy partner

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] gutsy-security multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy main universe restricted multiverse
# deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] gutsy-security multiverse
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy-security universe main multiverse restricted
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] gutsy-updates universe main multiverse restricted

[Snowhog]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

I see nothing wrong with your sources.list file. I thought I had asked, but just checked and didn't see were I did. So, are you running behind a firewall? That shouldn't matter, as you were able to run wget and pull the gpg key file down.

This is the content of my sources.list file. You can make a backup of yours, and then edit/replace your file with this. Open Adept Manager and Fetch Updates. See if it makes any difference. If not, you've lost nothing by the attempt. Just delete the file and rename the backup back to sources.list

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse

[prodigal64Bit]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

Yeah we're running behind a firewall but I'm actually a 2nd Line Senior IT technician (Need an embarassed smilie here now) so I know the network is sound, it's definately the install.

Will try copying your /etc/apt/sources.list file accross to my own and see what I can come up with from there.

EDIT : Yeah makes no difference unfortunately. I still think it's to do with IPV6 screwing around with my network settings. I had the same problem when I installed Ubuntu 7.10 and Suse 10.3, I think they all have IPV6 enabled (Which if I were installing Gentoo I would disable while installing so wouldn't be a problem and didn't appear to be enabled in 7.04) and now I can't find any other ways of turning the damn thing off.

EDIT2 : I've just verified absolutely that IPV6 is definately off yet occassionally I'm still getting the dns resolving of 1.0.0.0 in konsole. I'm getting angry

[Snowhog]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

I'm rudementally familiar with IPv6 (IPv4 ?) in that they are security protocols, correct? I ran into problems with that when I attempted to establish a network share between a Feisty laptop to a Widnoze Vista laptop using SAMBA. Could only get a one-way (Vista to Linux) share established. Documentation on the use, by Windoze, on an IPv protocol that no one else was using, was creating the problem.

But how would this be interfearing with a download action? What results do you get if you attempt an update from the command line? sudo apt-get update

[prodigal64Bit]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

The short and easy way to explain it is that IPV6 is a different type of network protocol to IPV4 except that its almost the same lol. IPV6 is a pain in the arse, most network hardware doesn't support it yet and to be honest it's just another over the top thing that isn't really needed. If you're lucky enough that your network card, router, switches and firewalls all support it then you don't really have to worry but thats pretty rare at the moment as most people are still using pretty much legacy hardware when it comes to networking. Our router is pretty new but I haven't configured it for IPV6 because I shouldn't need to. lol Anyway unfortunately it's not IPV6 I have successfully managed to turn it off as I suspected I had but in answer to your question I get the same problem I had before where trying to do a

sudo apt-get update

just tries to connect to the ubuntu servers and collect the updates but never gets anywhere.

It is resolving every address it needs to connect to in order to update as 1.0.0.0 and I can't get round it, earlier I managed to get round one occurrance of it by pinging ubuntu.com and it resolve it correctly but I can't get round it by pinging this time. Ping it and I get the right IP, when apt-get tries to connect to the servers I get 1.0.0.0

[MoonRise]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

Not to side track this thread, but I've also read that IPV6 was created to address the ever growing need for more IP addresses. Don't know how true that is, just read it in an article somewhere.

[Snowhog]

Re: Cannot install new programs or update with adept.

Do you, can you, bypass the router?