[ale] Synaptic problems

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Mark Wright wrote:
> I thought I screwed up a Ubuntu 5.04 installation by not knowing enough 
> about how to upgrade the repositories in synaptic.  But now I am having 
> a similar problem on another 6.06 installation.
> 
> I haven't changed anything on this 6.06 box.  I am getting "connection 
> refused"  Messages when I try to install updates.  Currently patches for 
> tar, rsync, and Mozilla.  The full text of the message is, "could not 
> connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (91.189.89.8) - connect (111 connection 
> refused)"

Any chance you have a proxy server set in synaptic?

I'm not sure what you mean by upgrade the repositories in Synaptic. 
Since at least 6.06, when a new distribution is released the upgrade 
manager can switch your repositories for you. Pre 6.06 you could do the 
following.

cd /etc/apt
sudo mv sources.list sources.list.bak
sudo sh -c "sed s:hoary:breezy:g sources.list.bak > sources.list"
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

You would replace hoary and breezy with the version you are currently 
running and the next version.

Ubuntu 5.04 reached end of live in October 2006. To get to a supported 
release, you'd have to upgrade to 5.10 then upgrade that to 6.06. A 
clean install is probably your easiest option.

-Brian