Pete  wrote:
>
> My Pi is an old one that's using Wheezy.  As it does the job perfectly
> for me, I have no reason to update.  Except...
>
> I happened to want to use tcpdump, but find it isn't there.
> So I went to apt-get it, but that failed, suggesting an 'apt-get update'.
> Did that, and *everything* was 404!  Do they really not keep archives
> for more that four years, or is something else going on?

I'm not a Raspbian user, but the first post includes reference to:
http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian
and browsing that in a web browser finds a "dists/wheezy" directory.

I suggest adding that to /etc/apt/sources.list, if it's not already
there.

> I thought, Oh well, I'll just compile the thing from source...
> But tcpdump requires libpcap, which requires flex, which requires
> libtoolize...  At that point I gave up, as I can't install anything.

Yeah, I've done a fair bit of that. It does wear a bit when you get
so far along the dependency trail just to find one that refuses to
compile.

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