On Mon, 31 Mar 2025, keller.st...@gmx.de wrote:
For comparison, some research and portability tests I'd like
to install old releases of Debian, i.e. versions 8, 9, 10.
Are there archives and old repositories to install from?
Steve
archive.debian.org for packages before bullseye.
Buster is tricky as, IIRC you need to use the regular repo for updates
but archive.debian.org for the base packages - not exactly sure why it
was done this way, I've not seen it happen before.
And Jessie is tricky because the updates don't exist at all. AIUI they
were rolled into the base packages before archiving. No a big issue but
means a trivial replacement in sources.list fails to find some release
files.
And, of course, for these very old releases you need to tell apt that an
expired signature is ok.
snapshot.debian.org if you need a particular package as of a particular
time.
