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from: DENNIS LEE BIEBER
date: 2019-07-07 11:40:00
subject: Re: Trouble using apt-get

On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 00:00:03 +0000 (UTC), neverland@GoodeveCa.net (Pete)
declaimed the following:

>
>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...
>
 Ancient...

 Buster is due out (well, the R-Pi 4 is using a pre-release "testing"
image as Stretch won't work on it), and even Jessie is being phased out.

>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 suspect it isn't time -- but versions... Wheezy is FOUR generations
old in relation to Buster. That makes it the "WinXP" in relation to
"Win10".


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