title: Trying to install gcc on ubuntu amazon EC2 instance
body: <p>I'm trying to install gcc and g++ compiler on my amazon ec2 instance. but when i type the command on the instance</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo apt-get install gcc
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  <p>I got stuck when I try to connect the amazon archives. I wait here a little bit:</p>
  
  <pre><code>0% [Connecting to us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com (54.231.160.74)]
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  <p>and then get a bunch of errors about not being able to connect to the archives. Does anyone know the solution? Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>Errors:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Err http://us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main libasan0 i386 4.8.2-19ubuntu1
  Could not connect to us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (54.231.160.74), connection timed out
  
  
  E: Failed to fetch http://us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6-dev_2.19-0ubuntu6_i386.deb  Unable to connect to us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com:http:
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