On 2020-07-14 11:03, J. Patrick Harrington wrote:
I sometimes run TAILS (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) on my Dell
XPS-13-9300. This is a Gentoo
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux>-based Linux operating
system running on a USB stick. I installed j807 and j901 on it in the
past, but when I tried to install j902, while the basic jconsole
installed OK, the attempts to load the addons failed with this
message(s):
curl: (7) Failed to connect to www.jsoftware.com port 80. Connection
refused.
I now also cannot use pacman to update j901 -- I get the same failure
to connect.
TAILS uses the Tor browser and relays the internet connection through
many servers for anonymity. Perhaps your network detects this and
refuses the connection. Is there any way around this problem? Tor will
connect to most internet sites but seems to fail with timeout on my
University of Maryland webpage.
Try browsing to https://jsoftware.com/
If that succeeds, the problem may be that TAILS is blocking
outbound port 80 connections, i.e., unencrypted HTTP
connections, for your safety. You might be able to unblock http
temporarily, or you might patch your pacman install to use
https:// URLs instead.
If that still fails, then the tor exit node you're using might
be blocked for abuse, which is common even if Tor isn't being
consciously blocked, due to abuse that goes through Tor. You
could try getting a new Tor circuit, which might give you a
new, unblocked exit node.
What I'd suggest is to install J on a VPS or shared hosting
account, download packages there, and then rsync them to your
TAILS install. Having something like this might also give you a
good place to store your work, what with the 'Amnesiac' in
TAILS.
Once again, thanks for the continual improvements in j. I hope to dig
into Fold soon!
Patrick
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