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Fix Debian 8 sources.list and 404 issues
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Fix-Debian-8-apt-sources.list.md

Edit sources.list

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Replace it with:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main contrib

To fix 0% download progress issue, edit gai.conf

nano /etc/gai.conf

uncomment this line:

precedence ::ffff:0:0/96  100

To fix 404 issues:

echo 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until no;' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99no-check-valid-until
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