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How to force APT to use IPv4 instead of IPv6

Even though I am a big advocate on promoting IPv6, I have came across Debian’s APT / apt-get stuck with the following message. I believe it is due to an issue on the serve concerning the FQDN
http.debian.net and security.debian.org. The easy way to fix is to force APT to use IPv4 as opposed to IPv6.

0% [Connecting to http.debian.net (2a01:4f8:151:555d::42)] [Connecting to security.debian.org (2610:148:1f10:3::73)]
echo 'Acquire::ForceIPv4 "true";' | tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99force-ipv4
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