there are no firewalls up now and it still won't work. originally I had firewalls, but not on that port.
The etc/apt/sources.list lists the appropriate sources. apt-get update gives me the same type of error.
Failed to fetch
http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/di...tion-en_US.bz2 Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused)
cat sources.list
## UBUNTU REPOSITORIES
## -------------------
##
## Feisty (Ubuntu 7.04)
deb
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted universe multiverse
##
## Proposed Updates
deb
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
##
## Bug Fixes
deb
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
##
## Security Updates
deb
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted universe multiverse
##
## Backports
deb
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
## LINUX MINT REPOSITORIES
## -----------------------
##
## Cassandra (Linux Mint 3.0)
deb
http://www.linuxmint.com/repository cassandra/
##
## Romeo (Linux Mint Unstable)
## deb
http://www.linuxmint.com/repository romeo/
## OTHER REPOSITORIES
## ------------------
##
## Canonical (RealPlayer10, Opera, DesktopSecure etc...)
deb
http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main
##
## Medibuntu (Codecs and extra applications)
deb
http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ feisty free non-free
thanks for posting, though