How To Use apt-get with IPv4 or IPv6 Transport (address) on a Ubuntu or Debian or Mint Linux

To use apt-get with a specific IPv4 or IPv6 transport (address) on a Ubuntu, Debian, or Mint Linux system, you can use the -o Acquire::ForceIPvX option followed by the transport type and the address.

For example, to use apt-get with IPv4, you can use the following command:

apt-get -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true update

This will force apt-get to use IPv4 for all connections.

To use apt-get with IPv6, you can use the following command:

apt-get -o Acquire::ForceIPv6=true update

This will force apt-get to use IPv6 for all connections.

You can also specify the address to use for the connections. For example, to use the IPv4 address 192.0.2.1 with apt-get, you can use the following command:

apt-get -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true -o Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.0.2.1:3142" update

This will force apt-get to use the specified IPv4 address for all connections.

Note: The apt-get command is used to manage packages on Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint systems. The update option updates the package index to the latest available versions.