Comments on How To Get LTS updates for Debian 6 (Squeeze)

Debian Squeeze (6.0) is the so named "Old Stable" branch of Debian, the official support for this version ended in april 2014. Squeze is still used on many servers, so a group of Debian developers decided to provide security patches for a longer timespan for this release. These so called LTS updates (LTS = Long Term Support) are not available on the normal Debian update repository and not every user might be aware that he wont get these updates automatically. The following short guide explains how to enable the LTS repository and install the updates.

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By: Jacek
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It is important to add information, that security updates squeeze-lts are planed only until February 2016!

By: bob
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Failed to fetch http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian/dists/squeeze-lts/Release  Unable to find expected entry  main/binary-i386/Packages in Met

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By: till
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Squeeze is end of life, so you can't get updates for it anymore. If you want to install a package on squeeze from now on, use the Debian archive servers. But I highly recommend to update the server to Debian Wheezy or Jessie instead.