jockey-kde crashed with Failed to fetch http in _runFetcher()

[Hartmut]

Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

jockey-kde:
  Installed: 0.4+r354-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.4+r354-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.4+r354-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

crashes when I try to install the NVIDIA driver

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-kde
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: jockey-kde 0.4+r354-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/jockey-kde --check 60
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/jockey-kde', '--check', '60']
SourcePackage: jockey
Title: jockey-kde crashed with Failed to fetch http in _runFetcher()
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-5-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare