Re: unable to apt-get an older system

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Friday 13 May 2011 18:00:14 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Vi, 13 mai 11, 07:44:23, Lisi wrote:
> > Once you have edited your sources list, you will need to update your apt
> > database with these repositories, but you will need to get rid of the
> > Squeeze data first, but I have never edited the apt datbase and that
> > don't know how to do it.
>
> Simply removing any 'stable' or 'squeeze' (i.e. anything that you don't
> need) entries in sources.list and running 'apt-get update' should do the
> trick.

Thanks, Andrei.

I thought (clearly erroneously) that it couldn't/wouldn't go backwards.   I 
shall obviously have to adjust my ideas.

Lisi