apt-get update from a VM

LukasH · 08-20-2012, 06:28 AM

Hello everyone,

in order to solve a problem I have with a tool named Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com), I really need some help.

I tried to update some guest additions in a Vagrant-based virtualmachine (Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal). That fails (both ways, on the host machine as well as on the guest).

I get the following output out of "sudo apt-get update" (from within the guest, connected via SSH, which totally works):

Code:

lukash@moritz:~/vagrant_test$ vagrant ssh
Welcome to Ubuntu 11.04 (GNU/Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
Last login: Sun May  8 16:01:18 2011
vagrant@natty:~$ sudo aptitude update
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty InRelease                            
  
Err http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security InRelease                     
  
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates InRelease                    
  
Err http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security Release.gpg                   
  Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty Release.gpg                          
  Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates Release.gpg
  Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

Some help would be a great thing!

If you don't have all the information you need to give some advice, please ask me for it - I'm not yet an experienced programmer, though I'm really working hard on getting better

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abrinister · 08-20-2012, 12:00 PM

Can you ping from the guest? Is there no internet connection at all?

Alex Brinister

PTrenholme · 08-20-2012, 03:23 PM

And is that April 2011 (11.04) release still supported?

LukasH · 08-20-2012, 06:11 PM

Umm, I cannot ping from the guest, yes. I don't know if that release is still supported, since there's already 13.04 (? as I think) I don't think so though.

It's kind of strange - I did not change anything within the vagrant config (or my computer's or OS' config), though it worked after going for a rebuild out of the vagrant box from scratch. Now, since the Ubuntu box (which is pre-packed so to say) does seemingly not contain any GUI (like Gnome), so I tried installing Gnome manually by apt-get command (after doing apt-get update within the VM, which worked) - now I get the same code output as above. I don't get that, since things like apt-get update or install seem to work pretty much random?

LukasH · 08-21-2012, 03:35 AM

Oh well, guess I found the problem. If you are going for host-only network, there is a static IP necessary. I did not assign any, though this is ofcourse a necessary thing.

Thanks for your help! :-)

Lukas