On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 6:31 AM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 06:25:35AM -0700, Keith Christian wrote: > > My first search brought me to wiki.debian.org, where I landed on the > > /LTS/Using page, but it contained no Buster-specific instructions. > > See also <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster> which says: > > Q) Where do I get buster packages? > Use the following sources for buster: > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main > > > E: The repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/updates > > Release' does not have a Release file. > > You've got an error here. Either you meant this to be a security line, > and you've forgotten to use "debian-security" at the tail end of the > URL field, or else you meant this to be a "buster-updates" line, and > accidentally used a / instead of a - character in the third field. > > (I'm not sure if a buster-updates repository section still exists for > that release, but if it does, it'll be spelled with a hyphen.) >
Thanks Greg, The Buster machine I'm planning to re-activate is still powered off until I find the exact security update lines for sources.list. This error that you mention below is an example from my "pre-startup research," showing a user's report. When I find the correct sources.list lines I'll verify them with your suggestions below. > > E: The repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/updates > > Release' does not have a Release file. > > You've got an error here. Either you meant this to be a security line, > and you've forgotten to use "debian-security" at the tail end of the > URL field, or else you meant this to be a "buster-updates" line, and > accidentally used a / instead of a - character in the third field. Keith
