On Tuesday 21 August 2018 10:57:02 Nick Koretsky 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/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/non-free/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/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/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/main/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/non-free/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/non-free/i18n/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/binary-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 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? Thanks Nick. -- 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>