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Ubuntu : Error "couldn't connect to host"


This error will be resulted mostly because of the user permissions. To go through it, we need the simulate the initial login mode:
sudo -i
Now run the commands which resulted in the above error, but without prefixing with 'sudo'. Remember to go out of this mode after running your commands. To go out:
exit

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