Cannot install packages in my virtualbox machine

Question

I have just installed Ubuntu server 16.04 LTS in my virtualbox machine, but I cannot install any new packages? I tried to remove source lists, and update but the same probleme was repeted. I tried this commandes line but ths same probleme.

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade --fix-missing

Output of update is :

Err:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err:2 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'fr.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err:3 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'fr.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err:4 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'fr.archive.ubuntu.com'
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'fr.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'fr.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-backports/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'fr.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-security/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'security.ubuntu.com'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Thanks in advence

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 03 '19 at 11:15

It seems is just a stupid mistake I have done, I'have forgot to add DNS server name in my interfaces configurations, so all my packages can't resolves a domaine names.

Solution was :adding the line

dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8

on the file /etc/network/interfaces

Cannot install packages in my virtualbox machine

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