How to re-enable FTP on secondary Ubuntu/Debian server to pull updates from Main Linux Server with Mirrored depository?

apt server updates ftp 19.10

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On the command line run

echo 'Dir::Bin::Methods::ftp "ftp";' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99local-ftp

This will create a config file named 99local-ftp (you may choose another name if you want) in folder /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ that contains the line

Dir::Bin::Methods::ftp "ftp"

This will re-enable FTP for apt.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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MontesCodes over 1 year
updated both my Linux servers to Ubuntu 19.10 and the latest version of Debian which both are pointing to my main Linux Server running a Mirrored depository and allows communications to it via FTP, and now I am receiving message stating
```
The method 'ftp' is unsupported and disabled by default. 
Consider switching to http(s). 
Set Dir::Bin::Methods::ftp to "ftp" to enable it again.
```
after failing to fetch ftp://. How can I re-enable the retrieval of system update via FTP?
MontesCodes over 4 years

Wow! thank you Sir, you are the man, fixed my issue on all three of my Linux Servers.