Package: apt-get
Version: 2.2.4
From: William O Richmond
wor...@windstream.net
When, for example, I do:
orville@flinta:~$ sudo apt-get install lynx
[sudo] password for orville:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
lynx-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lynx lynx-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,844 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,768 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 lynx-common all
2.9.0dev.6-3~deb11u1
Ign:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 lynx amd64
2.9.0dev.6-3~deb11u1
Err:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 lynx-common all
2.9.0dev.6-3~deb11u1
Connection failed [IP: 199.232.34.132 80]
Err:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 lynx amd64
2.9.0dev.6-3~deb11u1
Connection failed [IP: 199.232.34.132 80]
E: Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx-common_2.9.0dev.6-3%7edeb11u1_all.deb
Connection failed [IP: 199.232.34.132 80]
E: Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.9.0dev.6-3%7edeb11u1_amd64.deb
Connection failed [IP: 199.232.34.132 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
--fix-missing?
orville@flinta:~$
orville@flinta:~$
orville@flinta:~$ lynx
-bash: lynx: command not found
orville@flinta:~$
I have been mystified by this sort of behavior for a number of
months. I have made no headway. I have effectively lost the use of
debian linux due to problems resulting from the failure of the update
and installation mechanisms. For me this has also become a major
security problem. Clamav has ceased to function after months of
freshclam failures. Firefox is getting older and older.
I have a number of machines running various flavors of ubuntu. The
problems which I have with debian are very much the same as ubuntu.
I have a Fedora machine as well. I normally have not much liked
Fedora because I find it constricting, however it is up to date. I had a
spell where its updates were very slow, but it seems to have gotten past
that time.
I have installed Fedora on a second machine, and if I can resolve the
problems with it I will begin the VERY laborious process of porting
applications and data to Fedora.
I have been considering that maybe some part of the update process,
(curl ??), has been being intercepted ... perhaps by my ISP?? ... but I
don't know. I have been studying VPN implementation. I really require
a VPN with its own IP address to test this. I would have to do this
using Fedora or some other system as I cannot download VPN components
successfully on Debian or Ubuntu machines.
I have successfully connected to both the Debian and Ubuntu sites
using ncftp and also to a limited extent using lynx. I was able to
download files with ncftp and to a lesser extent with lynx. Apt-get etc
however seem to have no luck. I can make no sense of any of this.
Needless to say, I have not been able to download and install
"reportbug" and am probably obviously not using it.
It has seemed to be to be unlikely that I am the only person with
these problems, however I do apologize for waiting so long,
I would appreciate at least a note that somebody has received this
missive and am actually hoping for some resolution. I am most easily
reached by email at wor...@windstream.net.
Thanking everyone in advance for their help.
William O Richmond
orville@flinta:~$ uname -a
Linux flinta 5.10.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.113-1 (2022-04-29) x86_64
orville@flinta:~$ ls -l /lib/*/libc.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 17 2022 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
-> libc-2.31.so
orville@flinta:~$ apt show libc6 | grep ^Version
Version: 2.31-13+deb11u3
