On Tuesday 21 August 2018 13:43:18 Nick Koretsky wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:18:38 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <gheskett@...> wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:10:56 -0400 > > > > > > Gene Heskett <gheskett@...> wrote: > > > > From the plethora of errors I'm getting in a synaptic refresh, > > > > the wheezy repos seem to have been shut down. Support ended June > > > > 30 IIRC. Even backports is 404. The rest are address not found. > > > > > > Hm? http://ftp.debian.org/ still have wheezy. > > > > but no key files, something aptitude doesn't tolerate, and synaptic > > complains about at length. > > or just plain gone. If synaptic will copy/paste: > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/Release.gpg > > Something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - > > No address associated with hostname) > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/main/binary- > >i386/Packages Something wicked happened resolving > > 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/contrib/bina > >ry-i386/Packages Something wicked happened resolving > > 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/non-free/bin > >ary-i386/Packages Something wicked happened resolving > > 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/contrib/i18n > >/Translation-en_US Something wicked happened resolving > > 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/contrib/i18n > >/Translation-en Something wicked happened resolving > > 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/main/i18n/Tr > >anslation-en_US Something wicked happened resolving > > 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/main/i18n/Tr > >anslation-en Something wicked happened resolving > > 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/non-free/i18 > >n/Translation-en_US Something wicked happened resolving > > 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/non-free/i18 > >n/Translation-en Something wicked happened resolving > > 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) > > Failed to fetch > > http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/wheezy-backports/firefox-release/bin > >ary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 149.20.4.15 80] > > Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old > > ones used instead. > > The us.debian.net mirror is down apparently. Use a different one. I > have a wheezy machine and just ran a apt-get update without problem. > > > > The debian repos are > > > never gone, the older one just get moved to > > > http://archive.debian.org > > > > So I should edit the repos to be archive.debian.org? Is there just > > one, no mirrors? > > No, wheezy is still in the main repos, it have not yet moved to > archive. I took the ".us" out of the hostnames, now my fail list is 2x longer, no hostname associated failures. If they still exist, I need the full url's. please? -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>