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Can't update because the word prox* is blocked

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I live in Ethiopia and the government blocks all urls with the word "proxy" in them. I couldn't use that word in the title above because that would make the url contain the word proxy.

When I apt-get upgrade I get errors because some packages like libproxy1, libproxy1-plugin-gsettings, libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager, python-libproxy all contain the p word.

Therefore, it is all blocked. I tried putting the urls into proxy sites, but they all just returned to their home page.

Are there any other solutions?

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answered 2 Years ago rcraftemur · Accepted Answer

The packages get blocked because your government apparently uses a URL filter. You can circumvent this by using FTP instead of HTTP to upgrade. To do this edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all occurrences of http with ftp.

You can also do it with these commands in a terminal:

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list{,.old}

sudo sed -i 's/http/ftp/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

Now try to update your package list and install the updates

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

You will need to repeat the process for additional software sources (i.e. PPAs) that live in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. (credit goes to reddit user noname-_-)