Re: unable to apt-get an older system

2011-05-13 Thread Lisi
On Friday 13 May 2011 18:00:14 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 mai 11, 07:44:23, Lisi wrote: > > Once you have edited your sources list, you will need to update your apt > > database with these repositories, but you will need to get rid of the > > Squeeze data first, but I have never edited the a

Re: unable to apt-get an older system

2011-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 mai 11, 07:44:23, Lisi wrote: > > Once you have edited your sources list, you will need to update your apt > database with these repositories, but you will need to get rid of the Squeeze > data first, but I have never edited the apt datbase and that don't know how > to do it. Simply

Re: unable to apt-get an older system

2011-05-12 Thread Lisi
On Friday 13 May 2011 05:30:44 Jim Pazarena wrote: > I have: > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib > > which dies (apt-get update) on: > Get:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Release [98B] > Fetched 8830kB in 1m56s (76.1kB/s) > Reading Package Lists... Error! I

Re: unable to apt-get an older system

2011-05-12 Thread Jim Pazarena
On 2011-05-10 9:43 AM, Tom Grace wrote: On 10/05/11 16:50, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have a debian based appliance which is running 2.6.16.62, I am unsure how to determine debian version. You may have some luck with: cat /etc/debian_version ahhh.. 4.0 Is there a way around this? Other than a

Re: unable to apt-get an older system

2011-05-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 May 2011 08:50:01 -0700, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I have a debian based appliance which is running 2.6.16.62, I am unsure > how to determine debian version. Try with "lsb_release -a" > I need to add wput (apt-get install wput) however first I need to run > apt-get update which fails at:

Re: unable to apt-get an older system

2011-05-10 Thread Tom Grace
On 10/05/11 16:50, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have a debian based appliance which is running 2.6.16.62, I am unsure how to determine debian version. You may have some luck with: cat /etc/debian_version or cat /etc/lsb-release Is there a way around this? Other than a full update, which isn't possibl