I’m using debian etch for one my clients server and its loaded with many services. I’m trying to instll php5-gd application on it, but when I do apt-get update it show me some errors saying 404 not found and the following.
Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Admin ]
Unfortunately, Debian Etch have been no longer supported since February 2010. At some point after the security support for a specific release is terminated, the release gets removed from the regular Debian mirror network. This is way your apt-get can no longer find the package indexes it is looking for upon upgrade.
Gerfried Fuchs
[ Editor ]
Debian etch is unsupported since february and was moved to archive.debian.org in june. You definitely should upgrade to lenny finally. Actually you can change your sources.list to point to archive.debian.org, but you really should do the upgrade process really soon because especially for php5 there had been several security announcements been sent out since, ignoring all the other ones about the kernel, apache and other packages.
Again, do your upgrade to lenny finally, you should have done so ages ago already!
Envite
Suggestion:
a) Change your /etc/apt/sources.list to include both actual etch archive and lenny stable repositories
b) Upgrade your system entirely from etch to lenny, either in a block as a wholeor (if you want more control or have scarce hard disk for package downloads) in small pieces.
c) Remove etch repository from your /etc/apt/sources.list
d) Check if you have packages in the section “old/local” and remove them
