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Re: How to use apt to install security updates ?



On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 06:14:39PM +0100, Christian Schlettig wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to the list and I've just read the security.debian.org page and inserted the "deb http://security.debian.org/ slink updates"
> line to my /etc/apt/sources.list.
> 
> When i run apt-get update i'll get the following output:
> 
> :/home/user# apt-get update
> Get:1 http://security.debian.org slink/updates Packages [19.4kB]
> Get:2 http://security.debian.org slink/updates Release [105B]
> Fetched 19.5kB in 3s (5958B/s)
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 
> and nothing else.
> 
> I'm using the original files from somewhere October so i'm wondering why there are 
> no new packages for me ?!
> 
> What am i doing wrong.

Are you really running slink?  We don't support that any more; you
should upgrade to potato, which has been out since last August.  The
web page does not reference slink any more...

Dan

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|       Daniel Jacobowitz        |__|        SCS Class of 2002       |
|   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __    Carnegie Mellon University   |
|         dan@debian.org         |  |       dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu      |
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