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How to run “sudo apt-get update” through proxy in commandline?

Programming Club IIT Kanpur: How can I get  updates in ubuntu 10.10?

  • I am using Ubuntu 10.10 via Vmware in windows 8. Also I am using no proxy in both virtual machine and Windows. I get this message when I run 'sudo apt-get update' - ' Some index files failed to download,they have been ignored or older ones used instead'. I can't install any software package either, I get the same message.

  • Answer:

    :-/ You are using an outdated version of ubuntu which is no longer supported, just dump it and move on to new version, or if you really want a long term support then go with one of the LTS versions. Anyways, now coming to answering your question, since ubuntu has officially stopped supporting updates for 10.10 all the mirrors out there are not gonna have the required packages, so you have only one option of setting the repo to old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu in /etc/apt/sources.list (i.e. replace all the existing archive.ubuntu.com with old-releases.ubuntu.com )

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