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Force Apt-Get to use IPv4 or IPv6 on Ubuntu or Debian

By Nenad Karlovcec1 min read
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Recently I transitioned my home network to dual-stack IPv4 / IPv6 and I noticed a strange issue on a number of my Debian-running servers: some of the apt updates were unable to complete. The issue seems to be lying in some of my (official) Debian sources being un-accessible via IPv6.

To resolve this, I edited a file:

Bash 
sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99force-ipv4

I added the following line:

Bash 
Acquire::ForceIPv4 "true";

After that I ran an apt update:

Bash 
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade

This resolved my issue with IPv6 and Debian apt sources.

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