Linux Mint 8 Problems

[Jordan L.]

Hello.

I recently (this morning) installed Mint 8 - Helena x64. I'm not a newbie at Linux, but not pro either. There's still a lot for me to do and learn on it. But for some reason, I can't use APT-GET. At the moment my resolution is absolutely terrible, because I don't have the drivers, and I can't install anything that I want. I can still access the internet, but just not the servers at APT.

My Ping:

Code:

jordan@MintDevelop ~ $ ping google.com
PING google.com (66.102.11.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from google.com (66.102.11.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=78.3 ms
64 bytes from google.com (66.102.11.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=78.7 ms
64 bytes from google.com (66.102.11.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=78.1 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 78.180/78.409/78.736/0.237 ms

Trying to install FileZilla:

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  filezilla-common libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  filezilla filezilla-common libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 102 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,207kB of archives.
After this operation, 25.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0 filezilla-common filezilla
Authentication warning overridden.
0% [Waiting for headers]

It just stays on that on wont reach anything. It's the same when I try updates or install drivers. I've tried changing the servers, to my ISP's Mirror, but nothing seems to work. It says when it's syncing that everything fails.

Can anyone provide any help?
Thanks. [/align]

[5C4RF4C3]

Perhaps updating your system may solve this problem.

Enter the following command into Terminal:

Code:

sudo apt-get update

[Jordan L.]

Nope; it can't even update. Because it wouldn't read the headers. Anyway, I don't need to fix this anymore; I gave up on Mint ages ago. Thanks for the suggestion though.