[SOLVED] apt repositories incomplete

[jvd]

Hey there. I am new here. I am setting up a debian Mint machine for a friend. I am using debian w/o Mint on my own machines (#!, for the curious). A lot of enjoyable goodies of-the-shelf: Congrats!

I cannot update the installed software, and also the Debian repositories are not available:

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$ sudo apt-get install ssh
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package ssh is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  openssh-client

E: Package 'ssh' has no installation candidate

and:

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Release file expired, ignoring http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/Release (invalid since 7d 2h 26min 8s)

I did change /etc/apt/sources.list, since I'd prefer to stick to squeeze rather than unstable. Rather a difference starting this weekend

Here sources.list:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ squeeze main non-free

Can anyone point me to how to get access to the debian squeeze repository, and to the security updates?

Thanks a bunch.

[jvd]

Sorry, mods. could you please move this topic to LMDE (Linux Mint Debian)?

Thanks.

[dawgdoc]

Looking at the time on your post, I would guess that the repositories have reset by now. If not then they probably will have in a few more hours.

[vrkalak]

Since, the new 'stable' Release of Debian 6.0 Squeeze (was just a few hours ago) .. the Testing repros are being 'reset' by the Debian Devs/Maintainers.

Should be up and running soon.

[cpatrick08]

Hey there. I am new here. I am setting up a debian Mint machine for a friend. I am using debian w/o Mint on my own machines (#!, for the curious). A lot of enjoyable goodies of-the-shelf: Congrats!

I cannot update the installed software, and also the Debian repositories are not available:

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$ sudo apt-get install ssh
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package ssh is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  openssh-client

E: Package 'ssh' has no installation candidate

and:

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Release file expired, ignoring http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/Release (invalid since 7d 2h 26min 8s)

I did change /etc/apt/sources.list, since I'd prefer to stick to squeeze rather than unstable. Rather a difference starting this weekend

Here sources.list:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ squeeze main non-free

Can anyone point me to how to get access to the debian squeeze repository, and to the security updates?

Thanks a bunch.

keep the linux mint one as is the change the debian ones with the following ones:
deb http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main non-free contrib
deb http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ squeeze-proposed-updates non-free contrib main
deb-src http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ squeeze-proposed-updates non-free contrib main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main non-free contrib

[jvd]

Hrrmm thanks for your replies!

Still did not receive updates. Not with the sources.list posted above, and not with the alternative suggested by cpatrick08. Of course, after apt-get update. Not sure what is going on here. My fully patched other machine pulled in an update from the same sources?

Appreciate your ideas.

[jvd]

Managed to trick apt into updating by issuing:

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sudo aptitude -o 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false' update

Updates are running now

[vrkalak]

If you are using the Squeeze repositories/sources.list . . . you should not be getting any updates.
As Debian 6.0 Squeeze was released as the new 'stable' less than 24 hours ago -- Squeeze is currently the most 'stable' and up-to-date OS out.

All the updates should be coming into the 'testing' repros'

Today there have been 220 some odd updates thus far.

When Lenny became stable and the new testing (squeeze) was released (2 years ago) ... there were around 900 updates in the first week.
None of which broke my system.

[jvd]

There have been quite some patches between the day the image i downloaded and now. Also, packages for squeeze will remain to be updated, for bugs. Only no new versions will be implemented. So it is important to keep updates running, also when sticking to the now-stable squeeze.

I expect still some non-critical bugs to be fixed the coming week. And the coming two years, for that matter

[jvd]

I knew I was an idiot!

Found the reason why updates would not run. I did not care to correct local time. No wonder there was some confusion along the way

Is there a reason BTW that NTP is not installed and used by default?