[BeagleBone Blue] dodgy beaglebone installation

Hi All,
I posted a questrion here about problems install gdb on Beaglebone blue and received a suggestion to run update. Regretfully i cannot post an answer to this, since i can only send one post per thread. But here is what i wanted to send:

Thanks for your comment. Yes that was one of the things I had tried, below is the response:, there must be something amiss in my installation, I just cannot figure out what.
Regards

debian@beaglebone:/var/lib/cloud9$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for debian:
Err:1 Index of /debian buster InRelease
Temporary failure resolving ā€˜repos.rcn-ee.comā€™
Err:2 Index of /debian buster InRelease
Temporary failure resolving ā€˜deb.debian.orgā€™
Err:3 Index of /debian buster-updates InRelease
Temporary failure resolving ā€˜deb.debian.orgā€™
Err:4 Index of /debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Temporary failure resolving ā€˜deb.debian.orgā€™
Reading package listsā€¦ Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state informationā€¦ Done
All packages are up to date.
W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/InRelease Temporary failure resolving ā€˜deb.debian.orgā€™
W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster-updates/InRelease Temporary failure resolving ā€˜deb.debian.orgā€™
W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/dists/buster/updates/InRelease Temporary failure resolving ā€˜deb.debian.orgā€™
W: Failed to fetch http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian/dists/buster/InRelease Temporary failure resolving ā€˜repos.rcn-ee.comā€™
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
debian@beaglebone:/var/lib/cloud9$

Itā€™s a feature of this forum software, for new users, you usually have to wait for me to wake up and approveā€¦ Eventually it just works.

How are you connected to the internet, Ethernet jack or the usb-ethernet bridge?

Regards,

Does the Blue have an ethernet jack ?

My guess would be Windows ICS over USB as that seems to cause the most problems.

Yeah, good point, Iā€™ve destroyed so many Blueā€™s i no longer touch themā€¦ They do notā€¦

They have built-in wifi, so thru connman you can bridge your SoftAP->WiFi.

For USB, make sure you are doing the Windows Internet Connection Sharing stuffā€¦

Honestly for the Blue, itā€™s just easier to bridge WiFi

Regards,

Indeed, the wifi connection solved the problem, now my MVS C++ program is writing ā€œhello worldā€ all day long. Thanks again !!!

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Thanks for your answers. ThatĀ“s right, my BBB is connected through the PCs USB. I will set up the wifi and have another go at it. Thanks again!