[Aptitude-devel] Bug#720873: Bug#720873: aptitude: Error downloading data file: Connection refused - connect(2)

[shirish शिरीष]

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On 8/26/13, Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
>
> Hi,
>
> shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> From last couple of days I have been getting the above as the very
>> last line either while adding or purging a package via the
>> command-line interface (CLI).
> [...]
>> Error downloading data file: Connection refused - connect(2)
> [...]
>> No idea which connection was refused, anybody know anything better?
>
> Any chance that you installed how-can-i-help? (Which installed an apt
> hook at /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99how-can-i-help and initially had a
> download URL at http://localhost/ hardcoded.)
>
> See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720856
>
> 		Regards, Axel
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aha.... yes I did install how-can-i-help. Sorry for the noise.
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