[apt-get] : failing update

Hi list ! I am running Etch on a quite old Thinkpad laptop which had not been connected to internet for over two weeks. Before this I had experienced no problems using apt-get update. When I tried it yesterday night, here is what I got : Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [18

RE : going from etch to unstable (sid)

Hey ! You can just change all the occurances of the word "etch" for "sid" in your /etc/apt/sources.list . Then run "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade". There must be another - more proper way - to do this with "apt-get dist-upgrade" but I've never used it. See man 8 apt-get for details. H.

Re: GLIBC_2.4

Hi ! First of all, according to your soources.list, you only have access to the security updates and not to the main debian archives. That's why you cannot download and thus install postfix-dev. Add these lines in your sources.list : deb ftp://ftp.XX.debian.org/debian etch main contrib deb-src ftp:

Re: GLIBC_2.4

I am not sure I get the point of those of you who are against having PATH=~/bin:$PATH. The PATH is just a way to make life easier. If an executable can be run, then it doesn't have to be in your PATH to be run. As someone said before, you usually have in ~/bin programs which are not available syst