Now I feel Really stupid... resolv.conf was the problem. "apt-get update" is working. Thanks John :-) John J. Trammell wrote: >On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:58:42PM -0500, Sam MacDonald wrote: > > >>I put the following in /etc/apt/sources.list >> >>deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free >>and >>deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free >> >>********************************************************** >>I find it interesting that I got the following when running "apt-get update" >> >>Failed to fetch >>http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Release >>something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.org:http' (-3) >> >>*********************************************************** >>I got this for contrib, main, and non-free every time. >> >> >> > >Sounds like your domain name resolution is broken. What >do you have in /etc/resolv.conf? What happens when you >'ping http.us.debian.org'? > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list