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Asked: 2012-03-26 22:59:17 +0800 CST

Debian 5.0 (lenny) apt sources fail?

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For the past few days, I couldn't update our apt-sources on Debian 5.0 (lenny). I get the following errors.

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/contrib/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/source/Sources  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/contrib/source/Sources  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/non-free/source/Sources  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

How do I fix this problem?

Edit:

My current sources are:

# Debian Lenny
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib  
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib  

# Debian Lenny Non-US
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US lenny/non-US main contrib non-free  
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US lenny/non-US main contrib non-free

# Debian Lenny Security
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
debian apt debian-lenny

4 Answers

  1. You can use the following sources until you upgrade your system:

    deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main non-free
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  2. Best Answer

    lenny is superseded by squeeze, and its lifecycle ended on Feb. 6th this year. You'll get no updates from the core Debian community for lenny.

    Options:

    1. Upgrade to squeeze.
    2. Stay with lenny, remove the Debian FTP servers from sources.list and keep the packages as they are. There will be no security updates.
    3. Pin (man apt_preferences) necessary packages down to lenny and perform a partial upgrade, or pin all packages down to lenny and perform upgrades as needed. Leaves you with a partial system, and you are likely to get all kinds of errors, but might be necessary if neither upgrade nor keep-as-is are options.
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  3. archive.debian.org has the package repositories of all EOLd debian releases

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  4. How can you download needed source packages if even list of packages in file http://archive.debian.org/debian_dists/Debian-5.0/main/source/Sources.gz is incomplete. You need all full extensions for needed source package so: _.diff.gz , _.dsc , _*.orig.tar.gz

    But for farse exist extensions _.debian.tar.gz , _.tar.gz (without orig) and some packages are completely removed from http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool so no strange that apt or any other package manager can't download them. So even manually you can't download them because no repository or mirror with complete packages for old version of Debian.

    You can try to write to autorities responsible for these "ideas" not only in Debian , Ubuntu but in whole Linux, or try to find old CD / DVD or computer and extract needed packages from them.

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