Did Debian lenny repositories vanish?

Question

Today, I tried to install packages through apt-get, but I encountered a lot of 404 errors. My sources.list was fully working last Friday (no changes to my knowledge), now I get:

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found [IP: 130.230.54.99 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/source/Sources  404 Not Found [IP: 130.230.54.99 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.32 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/main/source/Sources  404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.32 80]

When I browse for example http://security.debian.org/dists/ there seems to be no lenny directory. What's the issue?

Solution 1

Since

• Lenny is EOLed
• lenny security updates have been terminated on February 6th
• lenny backports have been dicontinued on March 25th
• lenny volatile has been discontinued with the release of its successor "squeeze"

the repositories have been moved to archive.debian.org - you may wish to update your repositories to match this:

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
# Volatile:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
# Backports:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports main contrib non-free
# Previously announced security updates:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main

Solution 2

I think you want to

gpg  --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net  --recv-keys DFD993306D849617

to avoid the "NO_PUBKEY" error.

Solution 3

The other answers didn't work for me - this worked:

mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.PREARCHIVE

From http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=95658, make new /etc/apt/sources.list with

# SOURCE: http://superuser.com/questions/404806/did-debian-lenny-repositories-vanish
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports main
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports-sloppy main

Then

gpg  --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net  --recv-keys DFD993306D849617
apt-get update 

Comments

[Fdr]

Ok, it seems that lenny is moved to archieve. No suprise as it's passed already EOF: wiki.debian.org/DebianLenny

[0xC0000022L]

Noticed the same just lately a and decided to move on. Will take me a night or so, but still better this way. The machine should have been better maintained in the first place :)

[Bartek Banachewicz]

You saved my life and sanity with that answer. Thanks a lot!

[holms]

i've got W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org lenny/volatile Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY DFD993306D849617

[Kaz]

gpg needs some funny port number to request keys. How annoying. Why don't the use port 80.