worich@windstream.net When, for example, I do: orville@flinta:~$ sudo apt-get install lynx [sudo] password for orville: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: lynx-common The following NEW packages will be installed: lynx lynx-common 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,844 kB of archives. After this operation, 5,768 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 lynx-common all 2.9.0dev.6-3~deb11u1 Ign:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 lynx amd64 2.9.0dev.6-3~deb11u1 Err:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 lynx-common all 2.9.0dev.6-3~deb11u1 Connection failed [IP: 199.232.34.132 80] Err:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 lynx amd64 2.9.0dev.6-3~deb11u1 Connection failed [IP: 199.232.34.132 80] E: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx-common_2.9.0dev.6-3%7edeb11u1_all.deb Connection failed [IP: 199.232.34.132 80] E: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.9.0dev.6-3%7edeb11u1_amd64.deb Connection failed [IP: 199.232.34.132 80] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? orville@flinta:~$ orville@flinta:~$ orville@flinta:~$ lynx -bash: lynx: command not found orville@flinta:~$ I have been mystified by this sort of behavior for a number of months. I have made no headway. I have effectively lost the use of debian linux due to problems resulting from the failure of the update and installation mechanisms. For me this has also become a major security problem. Clamav has ceased to function after months of freshclam failures. Firefox is getting older and older. I have a number of machines running various flavors of ubuntu. The problems which I have with debian are very much the same as ubuntu. I have a Fedora machine as well. I normally have not much liked Fedora because I find it constricting, however it is up to date. I had a spell where its updates were very slow, but it seems to have gotten past that time. I have installed Fedora on a second machine, and if I can resolve the problems with it I will begin the VERY laborious process of porting applications and data to Fedora. I have been considering that maybe some part of the update process, (curl ??), has been being intercepted ... perhaps by my ISP?? ... but I don't know. I have been studying VPN implementation. I really require a VPN with its own IP address to test this. I would have to do this using Fedora or some other system as I cannot download VPN components successfully on Debian or Ubuntu machines. I have successfully connected to both the Debian and Ubuntu sites using ncftp and also to a limited extent using lynx. I was able to download files with ncftp and to a lesser extent with lynx. Apt-get etc however seem to have no luck. I can make no sense of any of this. Needless to say, I have not been able to download and install "reportbug" and am probably obviously not using it. It has seemed to be to be unlikely that I am the only person with these problems, however I do apologize for waiting so long, I would appreciate at least a note that somebody has received this missive and am actually hoping for some resolution. I am most easily reached by email at worich@windstream.net. Thanking everyone in advance for their help. William O Richmond orville@flinta:~$ uname -a Linux flinta 5.10.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.113-1 (2022-04-29) x86_64 orville@flinta:~$ ls -l /lib/*/libc.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 17 2022 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.31.so orville@flinta:~$ apt show libc6 | grep ^Version Version: 2.31-13+deb11u3