Problems updating Debian 6

Question

Im trying to update a Debian 6 server, but get the following output with some errors after sudo aptitude update:

Ign http://archive.debian.org oldstable Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ oldstable/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ oldstable/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ oldstable/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://archive.debian.org oldstable Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org squeeze-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://archive.debian.org oldstable/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org squeeze-updates Release
Ign http://archive.debian.org oldstable/contrib amd64 Packages
Ign http://archive.debian.org oldstable/non-free amd64 Packages
Ign http://archive.debian.org oldstable/main amd64 Packages
Ign http://archive.debian.org oldstable/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org squeeze-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://archive.debian.org oldstable/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org squeeze-updates/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org squeeze-updates/non-free amd64 Packages
Err http://archive.debian.org oldstable/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 206.12.19.126 80]
Err http://archive.debian.org oldstable/contrib amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 206.12.19.126 80]
Err http://archive.debian.org oldstable/non-free amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 206.12.19.126 80]
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free amd64 Packages

This is my sources.list:

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian oldstable main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

This sources was generated from http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/

What is wrong?

Daniel · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-31T20:28:05.150

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You need to change oldstable to lenny.

If you look into the http-repository, there is no folder oldstable. Hence the 404.

http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/oldstable (404)
http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny (200)

If you do not know why you have certain things in your sources list (archive/oldstable), I recommend to use this list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
#deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

# Security Updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

# squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main
#deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main

# testing or sid
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main

# Dotdeb Archive
#deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all
#deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all

edited Jan 31 '15 at 20:28

answered Jan 31 '15 at 19:16

Daniel

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Sorry, i don't understand, lenny is Debian 5..., elaborate please – Wyvern666 Jan 31 '15 at 19:19
Edited my answer – Daniel Jan 31 '15 at 19:21
Ok, and why there is not a squeeze folder then? – Wyvern666 Jan 31 '15 at 19:23
Wyvern, I answered your question. I would appreciate, if you could tell me if that fixed your problem. If you have further questions, you should ask a new question. You can also read more about the sources list here. https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList – Daniel Jan 31 '15 at 20:22
Yes, now it works. I think you had a typo at the start of your answer, you first said "change oldstable to lenny"... now in your last edit you changed oldstable for squeeze. – Wyvern666 Jan 31 '15 at 20:40
Yeah, that was a wrong assumption. Oldstable is squeeze. I wrote lenny because you were using squeeze and I thought you meant lenny with oldstable. Nevermind. Glad you got it working. – Daniel Jan 31 '15 at 20:45

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