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jaromil

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Registered: 2016-11-28

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[SOLVED] APT install timeout

Hello everyone!

I had this problem using Devuan on Docker images and bare-metal installations when connecting to certain mirrors and even on pkgmaster.

Not sure if anyone has a better solution, so far mine is this adding an "Acquire::Retries" policy of "5" to apt.conf.d

echo "Acquire::Retries \"5\";" | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/avoid-timeouts

Hope this helps anyone experiencing the same problem.

ciao

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hevidevi

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Registered: 2021-09-17

Posts: 230  

Re: [SOLVED] APT install timeout

Thanks, ive experienced this. What usually works for me is ctrl -c the install/update in the terminal and try again. Usually second try works. But this little one liner is a gem.

Last edited by hevidevi (2022-05-28 13:48:54)

Joerg_rw

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Registered: 2017-04-23

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Re: [SOLVED] APT install timeout

rather

tee --append

, just in case...?