Connection to repo problems. And a sound issue.

[bungleofsketches]

I have just installed LMDE. The internet connection works perfectly for firefox however when i try to update or refresh software choices i get

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/debian/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'packages.linuxmint.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/deb ... ion-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'packages.linuxmint.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/deb ... -en_GB.bz2 Could not resolve 'packages.linuxmint.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/deb ... ion-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'packages.linuxmint.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/deb ... -en_GB.bz2 Could not resolve 'packages.linuxmint.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/deb ... ion-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'packages.linuxmint.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/deb ... -en_GB.bz2 Could not resolve 'packages.linuxmint.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/ ... elease.gpg Could not resolve 'www.debian-multimedia.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/ ... ion-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'www.debian-multimedia.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/ ... -en_GB.bz2 Could not resolve 'www.debian-multimedia.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/ ... ion-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'www.debian-multimedia.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/ ... -en_GB.bz2 Could not resolve 'www.debian-multimedia.org'

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

and when i tried the command line

studio1537-laptop conor # apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en_GB
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_GB
Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en_GB
Err http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release.gpg
Could not resolve ‘packages.linuxmint.com’
Err http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main Translation-en_GB
Could not resolve ‘packages.linuxmint.com’
Err http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream Translation-en_GB
Could not resolve ‘packages.linuxmint.com’
Err http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import Translation-en_GB
Could not resolve ‘packages.linuxmint.com’
Err http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release.gpg
Could not resolve ‘www.debian-multimedia.org’
Err http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-en_GB
Could not resolve ‘www.debian-multimedia.org’
Err http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free Translation-en_GB
Could not resolve ‘www.debian-multimedia.org’
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing Release
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_GB
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/debian/Release.gpg Could not resolve ‘packages.linuxmint.com’

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/deb ... -en_GB.bz2 Could not resolve ‘packages.linuxmint.com’

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/deb ... -en_GB.bz2 Could not resolve ‘packages.linuxmint.com’

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/deb ... -en_GB.bz2 Could not resolve ‘packages.linuxmint.com’

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/ ... elease.gpg Could not resolve ‘www.debian-multimedia.org’

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/ ... -en_GB.bz2 Could not resolve ‘www.debian-multimedia.org’

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/ ... -en_GB.bz2 Could not resolve ‘www.debian-multimedia.org’

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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On a serperate note my sound only works for system notification noises and inside the browser. Music and film software don't. Multiple programs.

Can anyone help. I realise thats not a lot of info but just ask what you need and i'll tell you.

[blowtorch]

I don't know why you cant update I've never seen it before but it does seem like it's a connection problem ...

as far a sound problems its a known issue (?) with pulse audio not being configured correctly by default ... see the following post to fix it
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 81#p318668

[cecar]

Have you tried "sudo apt-get update" ?

[bungleofsketches]

thanks for the sound thing i did that. Couldn't find that originally.

I did the terminal command jobby. Thats the long string of code i posted.

Any suggestions?