Ubuntu apt-get unable to fetch packages [closed]

Answer 1

If you're having the issue with VirtualBox and a Virtual Machine I fixed it by changing Settings -> Network -> Attached To from NAT to Bridged Adapter

Answer 2

ON MAC: Nothing was helping until I realised ScreenTime was blocking the update website! Turning off content filtering fix it

Answer 3

In my case it failed to fetch be.archives.ubuntu.com (Belgium) so I generated a new sources.plist on this link as recommended by the accepted answer.

The thing that solved it for me was just to change the country to United States when generating the sources.plist. Then I could run this again.

apt-get update

Answer 4

I have been fighting the same thing for a while.

after all the research, this is the best solution.....

add the following to your resolve.conf file /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

https://serverfault.com/questions/717226/ubuntu14-04-unable-to-apt-get-update/771826#771826

Answer 5

For simplicity sake here is what I did.

cd /etc/apt
mkdir test
cp sources.lst test
cd test
sed -i -- 's/us.archive/old-releases/g' *
sed -i -- 's/security/old-releases/g' *
cp sources.lst ../
sudo apt-get update

Answer 6

I recently had an issue with apt-get update getting stuck at 0%;

0% [Connecting to security.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1360:8001::21)]

Could be some sort of DNS issue on ipv6. I just add this as a workaround;

-o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true