I cannot use apt?

[Daniel Mashao <daniel@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za>]

I am wondering if this is due to the proxy-server problems. Ny university
has some cache that needs to be specified for me to be able to ftp/http
outside the university.

I am basically clueless but I know that I could not use wget until I had
the proxy settings specified. Apt does not seem to have any of that stuff
defined.

Here is a sample output:

my sources.list file
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
deb http://www.debian.org/archive stable main

Output of my program
com5# apt-get update
Get http://www.debian.org stable/main Packages
Error http://www.debian.org stable/main Packages
 Couldn't connect to www.debian.org:80
ERROR
http://www.debian.org/archive/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  Couldn't connect to www.debian.org:80


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