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Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release.gpg
  Temporary failure resolving ?gb.archive.ubuntu.com?
Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/Release.gpg  Temporary failure resolving ?gb.archive.ubuntu.com?
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_universe_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
danil@P86CC:~$86CC:~$ sudo apt-get update
Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release.gpg
  Temporary failure resolving ?gb.archive.ubuntu.com?
Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/Release.gpg  Temporary failure resolving ?gb.archive.ubuntu.com?
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_universe_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I can say that something is missing.

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Well, http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com resolves for me. And I can even use a browser to fing the gpg key at http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/Release.gpg

Apparently, your network is not set up properly?

Can you open up any of those links in Firefox or other browser?

How about a ping of that site? Perhaps try a traceroute to see how far your request gets out?

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if you are having issue with root password, here is my tought on this and for me at least it works.

sudo passwd root

then change the password.

then for your updates, had the proper links in your configs then try agian it should work and if it request for a password then you allready know it as per you jsut changed it.

another thing is once password is change then use the elevated shell and input the root password when requested then do the updates.

hope it helps

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Well, http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com resolves for me.  And I can even use a browser to fing the gpg key at http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/Release.gpg

Apparently, your network is not set up properly?

Can you open up any of those links in Firefox or other browser?

How about a ping of that site?  Perhaps try a traceroute to see how far your request gets out?

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The page load, Ping and Traceroute will all fail as the WiFi network will not connect as the WiFi uses WPA which requires WPA Supplicant which I'm trying to install and work but that fails

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Well, there is the problem with your sudo apt-get update. When you do an apt-get it (by default) will search the repositories online. If you cannot get online, then your apt-get will fail, just like it did here.

As for getting your WPA, I don't know (unless you can connect to a wired ethernet port, which should work just fine).

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Well, there is the problem with your sudo apt-get update.  When you do an apt-get it (by default) will search the repositories online.  If you cannot get online, then your apt-get will fail, just like it did here.

As for getting your WPA, I don't know (unless you can connect to a wired ethernet port, which should work just fine).

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I see.

Is this the same http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/? Can I use this?

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