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Debian Etch Released - Changes to /etc/apt/sources.list

Monday, April 9th, 2007

When my grandfather was a boy, back in the days when everything was black and white, he waited up all night so he could witness the release of Debian Sarge. Now I, too, can say I’ve witnessed the release of that Halley’s Comet of distros, a new Debian Stable…

Debian 4.0 (Etch) became the stable version of Debian yesterday. If you’ve been using Etch prior to this, you will need to add security updates to your sources.list:


#
#  /etc/apt/sources.list
#

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

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

Running apt-get update you may run into these errors:


W: Conflicting distribution: http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release
     (expected stable but got etch)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Check your sources.list file again, and explicity use “etch” instead of stable as on some mirrors they don’t seem to be the same thing, yet. Then re-run apt-get update.

Welcome to Debian 4.0!

What’s New
Release Notes
Upgrading from Sarge to Etch

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