Re: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

["Daniel M. Drucker" <dmd@3e.org>]

Huh. I wonder how it got that way in the first place, then.

Thanks, that fixed it.

Daniel

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:44:24PM -0400, Daniel M. Drucker wrote:
> When I run apt-get update, I get:
>

> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find
> expected entry  unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file
> (malformed Release file?)
>
>
> Here is my sources.list:
>
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main unstable
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main unstable
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main
>
> deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
>
>
> I have tried running apt-get clean and autoremove; no change.

Squeeze is not unstable. Squeeze does not have an unstable
component. Remove that word from the source.

Squeeze is the old stable distro; current stable is Wheezy.

Can you tell us what your intent is?

-dsr-