package ttf-root-installer 5.18.00-2.3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:

also on intel core 2 duo

Hey, i think the problem is not the Architecture but the source

Hi
I'm a newbe to all this ubuntu but i like what i've seen so far, even given that from the start i've been having problems installing anything on my laptop. I use the synaptic package manager to download and install but on everything i get a error message about the ttf-root-installer. it brings up a terminal and tries to fix the problem but cant.
dos anyone no how i can fix this problem??????

I was using ubuntu along side windows and everything work just fine. then i done a full install with the ubuntu disk that i got in the mail. its the 9.04 edition.
PLEASE HELP this is driving me nuts i've gone looking on loads of forms but no joy.

Thanks for your time
Mickey

p.s the screen shot is what it tells me.

The problem appears to be slow DNS servers for cern.ch:

# wget --continue --tries=1 --dns-timeout=10 --connect-timeout=5 --read-timeout=300 --directory-prefix . -c ftp://root.cern.ch/root/ttf/ttf_fonts.tar.gz
--2009-12-28 10:54:17-- ftp://root.cern.ch/root/ttf/ttf_fonts.tar.gz
           => `./ttf_fonts.tar.gz'
Resolving root.cern.ch... failed: Connection timed out.
wget: unable to resolve host address `root.cern.ch'

If I change the timeouts to 20 seconds:
# wget --continue --tries=1 --dns-timeout=20 --connect-timeout=20 --read-timeout=300 --directory-prefix . -c ftp://root.cern.ch/root/ttf/ttf_fonts.tar.gz
--2009-12-28 10:54:37-- ftp://root.cern.ch/root/ttf/ttf_fonts.tar.gz
           => `./ttf_fonts.tar.gz'
Resolving root.cern.ch... 128.142.141.37
Connecting to root.cern.ch|128.142.141.37|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /root/ttf ... done.
==> SIZE ttf_fonts.tar.gz ... 1612860
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR ttf_fonts.tar.gz ... done.
Length: 1612860 (1.5M)

So the timeouts should be changed, and/or canonical should mirror this file.

fixed in 5.34.00-1