Problems Connecting to software updater

[mattcrust]

Hi, I'm not a complete novice but my linux understanding is limited to the basics. I am currently using 16.10 LTS and I am having an issue with the Software installer as I keep getting an apt error (no connection). When i try to do this in a terminal either
"sudo apt update" or "wget http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/pool...1-26_amd64.deb " I get "Could not connect to 130.159.183.75:9100 (130.159.183.75), connection timed out"

thanks in advance for any help or ideas

Matt

[halogen2]

16.10 was not a LTS. It has been unsupported for nearly a year now. Please install 16.04 or 18.04 for your own safety.

[deadflowr]

For what it's worth when I copied the wget link and ran as a search I got results for ]http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/netselect/
And not ]http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/netselect/

I scoured this listing and did not find any mirror for the gb.debian particular name scheme.

That said, are you positive you're on 16.10, as already posted about?
i give the benefit of the doubt and assume it's a typo, and it's actually 16.04.
Which happens here all the time.

post back the results from the sudo apt update command.
That can clarify things all around.

Some random thoughts by me

[mattcrust]

OK thanks
It is 16.04 my mistake soz- getting confused due to my desktop running 17.10
so when i run "sudo apt update" I get

Err:1 http://repo.entroware.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                        
  Could not connect to 130.159.183.75:9100 (130.159.183.75), connection timed out
Err:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                     
  Could not connect to 130.159.183.75:9100 (130.159.183.75), connection timed out
Err:3 http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubuntu.org/ubuntu xenial InRelease       
  Could not connect to 130.159.183.75:9100 (130.159.183.75), connection timed out
Err:4 http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubuntu.org/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
  Unable to connect to 130.159.183.75:9100:
Err:5 http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubuntu.org/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
  Unable to connect to 130.159.183.75:9100:
Err:6 http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubuntu.org/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
  Unable to connect to 130.159.183.75:9100:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up-to-date.
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en_GB) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target DEP-11 (partner/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target DEP-11-icons (partner/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...nial/InRelease  Could not connect to 130.159.183.75:9100 (130.159.183.75), connection timed out
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...ates/InRelease  Unable to connect to 130.159.183.75:9100:
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...orts/InRelease  Unable to connect to 130.159.183.75:9100:
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/...nial/InRelease  Could not connect to 130.159.183.75:9100 (130.159.183.75), connection timed out
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.ticklers.org/archive.ubun...rity/InRelease  Unable to connect to 130.159.183.75:9100:
W: Failed to fetch http://repo.entroware.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease  Could not connect to 130.159.183.75:9100 (130.159.183.75), connection timed out
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en_GB) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target DEP-11 (partner/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target DEP-11-icons (partner/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:43 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4

Thanx

Matt

[deadflowr]

port 9100 seems weird to me.
Is this using a proxy, or something?

[mattcrust]

I Knaa, I think it maybe a printer port. I'm not sure why its trying to call up that port instead of whatever port the apt sits on.

[mattcrust]

Ok this is really weird whatever mirror address imanually try to get - using wget it still trys to connect to 130.159.183.75

[mattcrust]

So I discovered a file in /etc/apt/ directory called apt-conf which had text saying update to the proxy 130.etc etc. Should I remove this or just change the proxy address to the one I want to go to.

thx

Matt

[mattcrust]

Ok so I got it sorted as well as the apt-conf file which needed removed There was a line in /etc/environment.txt calling for proxy address which also neebded to be removed. Thanks for listening t my pish.

Matt