Apt-Get on Debian-security Fails

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Atherton · #1 Post by **Atherton** » 2005-06-20 20:07

I have the host list for debian-security as provided in security.debian.com

deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free

I get cant stat message all the time. Is this the right address?

Thanks
PA

Jeroen · #2 Post by **Jeroen** » 2005-06-20 22:19

Did you "apt-get update"?

Guest · #3 Post by **Guest** » 2005-06-21 02:54

Yes,

I just added that line to the sources.list and then did apt-get update, and I get that message cant load failed 400,
cant stat http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free/packages.gz 400 notfound.

I sthis the correct address?
Thanks
PA

Guest · #4 Post by **Guest** » 2005-06-21 04:27

I just did apt-get update, it worked, might be the site was down yesterday. Now should I manually load any of these security updates? Whats the process, this is my first experience with Debian?

Thanks,
PA

Jeroen · #5 Post by **Jeroen** » 2005-06-21 10:43

You just do apt-get upgrade and all available updates will get installed -- which are none yet, at the moment. Subscribe to debian-security-announce, to get informed on security updates, and verify that if something is updated that applies to you, you indeed get updated.

Guest · #6 Post by **Guest** » 2005-06-21 11:38

Wont apt-get upgrade upgrade the entire OS. I guess that would be apt-get distrib upgrade? I have kernel 2.6.11 kernel with some patches.

Jeroen · #7 Post by **Jeroen** » 2005-06-21 11:56

If you run stable, the only upgrades you'll get are the point releases and security updates. That's exactly what you want.

In fact, aptitude is suggested as a better alternative to apt-get, like 'aptitude upgrade'