Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Unsupported versions of Ubuntu - repos and distros

One of my linux boxes runs on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft, which is no longer supported. It runs good, the machine is quite old and I have no reason to upgrade, but sometimes I need to (re)install some packages. Unfortunately official repositories are not available anymore, but after googling a lot I came across a forum thread that pointed to the right site.



Here is for reference: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/



It contains repositories and distributions for all old versions of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu.



Still for reference, "sources.list" in /etc/apt should have lines like :

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted