Sorry for taking so long to get this. In the mean time I set myself as a user for root and synaptic and update-manager now work. Is this inappropriate or dangerous? The gnuenterprise line was put in recently for some troubleshooting. My /etc/hosts file has:
127.0.0.1 localhost #70.158.36.94 www.gnuenterprise.org # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts -- Won't run but apt-get does https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs